National Register of Historic Places

YWCA, Phyllis Weatley Branch

St. Louis (Independent City), St. Louis County, Missouri
Listed
July 23, 1984
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
84002694

About this property

The YWCA, Phillis Wheatley Branch in St. Louis, Missouri is a building dating from 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The branch was founded in 1911 and named for Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet. It was only the fifth YWCA for African-Americans. The YWCA was a center of intellectual life in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood. The Fisk Jubilee Singers performed at Wheatley in 1916, and W.E.B. Du Bois gave a lecture in 1922. Maya Angelou, Mary McLeod Bethune and Butterfly McQueen all visited or stayed in the YWCA's hotel rooms. The building was constructed in 1927 for the St. Louis Women's Christian Association, also known as the Women's Christian Home, which was first organized in 1868. In 1941 they sold the building to the YWCA.

Location

2709 Locust St.
St. Louis (Independent City), St. Louis County, Missouri
38.63466, -90.21644

Categories

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Sources

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When was YWCA, Phyllis Weatley Branch listed on the National Register?

YWCA, Phyllis Weatley Branch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1984.

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YWCA, Phyllis Weatley Branch is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for YWCA, Phyllis Weatley Branch is recorded as the industrial era.

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