Hotel Lafayette

Hotel Lafayette

Hotel Lafayette 391 Washington Street Hotel Lafayette is a seven-story steel frame, concrete building designed in the French Renaissance style. It features decorative vitreous red brick and white terra cotta trim and was com- posed of several smaller rectangular...
Colored Musicians Club

Colored Musicians Club

Colored Musicians Club 145 Broadway Designated a historic preservation site in 1999, the Colored Musicians Club is the only remaining Black-owned and operated club of its kind in the United States. The club’s origins are found in Local 43, a chapter of the American...
YMCA Building

YMCA Building

YMCA Building 585 Michigan Avenue The Young Men’s Christian Association building on Michigan Avenue was designed by John Edmonton Brent, the second African American to design such a building for a Black community in the United States. Brent was educated at Tuskegee...