Brown Home

The oldest black residence in Bartow, this Victorian style building was built in the late 1800s by Lawrence Bernard Brown, a self-taught master carpenter. Brown invested in property in Bartow and built a large number of houses which he sold ...

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Kissimmee

This one-story Masonry Vernacular church was constructed in 1916. The name of Lawrence Silas, a prosperous black cattleman in Florida's range country, appears on the cornerstone. With his father's estate gone, Lawrence Silas rebuilt the family fortune and eventually owned ...

Hannibal Square Historic Neighborhood

From its beginning in 1881, African Americans played an integral part of Winter Park's development. The original town plan designated the Hannibal Square neighborhood for homes of African Americans who worked in the groves, hotels, homes, and as carpenters and ...

Wells' Built Museum of African American History and Culture

Dr. William Monroe Wells, an African American physician, built this hotel in 1926 to provide lodging to African Americans visiting the Orlando area. Second-floor hotel rooms complemented three first-floor store fronts. The adjacent South Street Casino attracted many famous entertainers, ...

Old Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

The congregation first met in a shed in 1919, and erected this stone church in 1920. This Romanesque style building now houses the Tabernacle of the Enlightened Church of God.

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Old Ebenezer Church

This Gothic Revival church was built circa 1900 by the congregation of the Ebenezer United Methodist Church. When the congregation moved, the structure became home to the Greater Refuge Church of Our Lord.

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Nicholson-Colyer Building

This late Victorian structure was built in 1911 for J.A. Colyer, an African American tailor and J.E. Nicholson, a Canadian baker. It was one of few properties outside the traditional African American neighborhoods that was owned and operated by African ...

Callahan Neighborhood

Bounded by Colonial Drive, Central Avenue, Division Street and Orange Blossom Trail.

This is one of Orlando's oldest black communities, originating in 1886. The district includes Callahan Neighborhood Center, the former old Jones High School, established in 1895.

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Second Bethel Baptist Church

This frame vernacular style building was completed in 1888 and served as a school for the black community. The pastor, the Reverend Henry Shaw, was the first to minister to the local African American turpentine, sawmill and phosphate workers.

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National Historic Landmark-William Gibbes House

National Historic Landmark-William Gibbes House

Constructed in 1779, this late-Georgian town house was redone in the Adam manner in 1794.

One of the finest two-story frame late-Georgian town houses in the American colonies, it is Charleston's most elegant two-story wooden double ...