Church buildings -- California -- Pasadena; Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, Calif.); Landscape architecture -- California -- Pasadena; Streets -- California -- Pasadena; First African Methodist Episcopal Church (Pasadena, Calif. : 1892-1910)
The First AME Church, Pasadena, was founded in 1887. The first building, constructed from a barn which was moved to the property, was completed in 1892, and was located at 565 N. Fair Oaks Avenue at the corner of Fair Oaks and Chestnut Street. ...
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Booker and Carrie McAdoo migrated to California from Arkansas in September 1899. Booker, who worked as a bath house attendant in a masseuse parlor in Arkansas, had contracted tuberculosis and his doctors recommended the move to California because...
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Booker and Carrie McAdoo migrated to California from Arkansas in September 1899. Booker, who worked as a bath house attendant in a masseuse parlor in Arkansas, had contracted tuberculosis and his doctors recommended the move to California because...
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Carrie Woods was the husband of Booker McAdoo and the mother of Benjamin McAdoo. She assumed the McAdoo when she married. Photograph of a (watercolor?) portrait.
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Booker was the husband of Carrie Booker who ran McAdoo's grocery store. Photograph of a (watercolor?) portrait.
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Booker and Carrie McAdoo migrated to California from Arkansas in September 1899. Booker, who worked as a bath house attendant in a masseuse parlor in Arkansas, had contracted tuberculosis and his doctors recommended the move to California because...
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Benjamin McAdoo, the son of Booker and Carrie McAdoo, was born around 1890 in Arkansas. Around 1899, Benjamin, his parents, and his two sisters came to California and settled in Pasadena in about March 1900. Benjamin worked as a railroad porter, a...
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First AME Church was moved from 565 N. Fair Oaks Avenue to the corner of Vernon Avenue (now St. John Avenue) and Kensington Street in 1910. There was opposition from some in the white community to the presence of the church in this neighborhood and...
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Dan Woods, uncle of Benjamin McAdoo and brother of Carrie McAdoo
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This business was located at 314 West Mountain Avenue.
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The Francisca Building, located at 22-26 W. Dayton St., was the first commercial building commissioned by an African-American for occupancy by African-American businesses. James T. Phillips, Jr., an attorney and real estate broker, commissioned the...
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The Francisca Building, located at 22-26 W. Dayton St., was the first commercial building commissioned by an African-American for occupancy by African-American businesses. James T. Phillips, Jr., an attorney and real estate broker, commissioned the...
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James Phillips commissioned the building of the Francisca Building.
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James T. Phillips, Jr. in his office in the Francisca Building. The Francisca Building, located at 22-26 W. Dayton St., was the first commercial building commissioned by an African-American for occupancy by African-American businesses. James T....
