Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building

United States historic place


Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building, March 2012
34°50′50″N 82°23′56″W / 34.84722°N 82.39889°W / 34.84722; -82.39889
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1922 (1922)
Built by	Working Benevolent State Grand Lodge
MPS	Greenville MRA
NRHP reference No.	82003865^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 1, 1982

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.^[2]^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ unknown (n.d.). "Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
^ "Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building, Greenville County (Broad & Fall Sts., Greenville)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.