Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building | |
Location: | Broad and Fall Sts., Greenville, South Carolina |
Coordinates: | 34.8472°N -82.3989°W |
Builder: | Working Benevolent State Grand Lodge |
Added: | July 1, 1982 |
Refnum: | 82003865 |
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.[1] [2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.