Coordinates: 34°50′50″N 82°23′56″W / 34.84722°N 82.39889°W / 34.84722; -82.39889

Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building

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Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building
Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building
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LocationBroad and Fall Sts., Greenville, South Carolina
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Area0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built1922 (1922)
Built byWorking Benevolent State Grand Lodge
MPSGreenville MRA
NRHP reference No.82003865[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 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]

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