Built 1922 (1922) NRHP Reference # 82003865 Area 800 m² | MPS Greenville MRA Opened 1922 Added to NRHP 1 July 1982 | |
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Built by Working Benevolent State Grand Lodge Address E Broad St, Greenville, SC 29601, USA Similar Great Smoky Mountains, Great Smoky Mountain, Greenville Zoo, Paris Mountain State Park, Fluor Field at the West End | ||
Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building is a historic office building located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built in 1922, and is a three-story, steel frame brick building. The building housed offices for African-American doctors, lawyers, dentists, a newspaper, and insurance firms and housed the first black mortuary in Greenville. The temple was also the center for Greenville’s civil rights activities during the 1960s.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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