The Dixie Court Hotel was a historic hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was designed by Harvey & Clarke and was built in 1926. The hotel was sold in 1943. On August 21, 1986, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The building was destroyed in 1990 for the development of the Palm Beach County Courthouse complex.
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The West Palm Beach Fishing Club is a historic building in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. The building is located at 201 5th Street and west of North Flagler Drive and south of North Quadrille Boulevard, which crosses the Intracoastal Waterway via the Flagler Memorial Bridge just east of West Palm Beach Fishing Club. Since June 13, 2016, the West Palm Beach Fishing Club has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Constructed in 1940, the building is of Modern Ranch architectural style and one story in height. The West Palm Beach Fishing Club houses an organization of the same name, which began as a civic and tourism-based organization established in 1934 to revitalize the local economy during the Great Depression.
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Sunset Lounge is an American historic music venue in West Palm Beach, Florida. It is in a section of the city that was once segregated. It is in the Northwest Historic District. It has been renovated and is set to reopen.
Performers included Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Sam Cooke and Count Basie. A legal dispute between the city and company chosen to manage the venue delayed its reopening.
The venue is located in the city's historically black Northwest Neighborhood. It was acquired by the city's Community Redevelopment Agency in 2015. It closed in 2018. The city spent $20 million acquiring and renovating the building, part of the city's efforts to revitalize the neighborhood under the direction of its mayor Keith W. James. Legal fees and delays have added additional costs.
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The Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum is a history museum in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida. The museum's exhibits and collection cover local history, with a permanent collection of millions of objects and images that span over 12,000 years of Palm Beach County and Florida history. The museum offers multiple exhibits, ranging from online collections to in-person displays, including both its permanent People and Places galleries as well as temporary special exhibits that open each fall, located in the Courtroom Gallery on the third floor of the 1916 courthouse. It is operated by the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. The museum is housed in a 1916 courthouse building, at 300 North Dixie Highway.
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The Northwest Historic District is a U.S. historic district in West Palm Beach, Florida on the northwestern side of the downtown area. It was designated a historic district on January 22, 1992. Its first Non-Native American settlements date back to the late 19th Century. After Henry Flagler announced plans to extend the Florida East Coast Railway to Southeastern Florida, blacks from northern Florida, Georgia, and the Bahamas moved to this area in search of work. West Palm Beach became incorporated in 1894, making it the oldest municipality in Palm Beach County.
For many decades, the Northwest neighborhood hosted the local segregated black community that prospered and added their own identity and culture to the city.
The district is bounded by Tamarind Avenue, 11th Street, Rosemary Avenue, and 3rd Street.
It contains 316 historic buildings, including churches and houses that represent a variety of styles from the late 19th- and early 20th- century in the South like the Bungalow Craftsman style, the Bahamian Vernacular style, the Shotgun, and American Foursquare style.
The West Palm Beach Community Development Agency has targeted the area, and is restructuring Tamarind Avenue and 7th Streets. They are also restoring the Sunset Lounge, called the "Cotton Club of the South", one of the few remaining venues on the Chitlin' Circuit.
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The Tabernacle Baptist Church is located at 801 8th Street, West Palm Beach, Florida. It was founded in 1893 as Mount Olive Baptist Church. From 1894 to 1896, it housed the first public school for blacks in Palm Beach County. The current building was built in 1925 in the neo-Romanesque Revival style.
It was located at 301 North Dixie Highway.
