Woman's Working Band House is a historic house in

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. It is located at 648 W. Brevard St. in Frenchtown, the oldest surviving African-American community in Florida. It was added to the

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on October 20, 2010. This completely restored National Register Property currently (2018) houses th
B Sharps Jazz Club
This house is one of the few recognized, extant properties financed jointly by rank and file and upper class African-American women. Its cornerstone was laid in 1921 by the Woman's icWorking Band and it was built to serve as an Old Folks Home.

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