BLIND WHINO SW ARTS CLUB
15,000 SQFT @ 700 DELAWARE AVE SW, WDC 20024
2013
“…well, I would imagine it to be an office, it can be a bedroom, or we can make ice then skate or ride our bikes, or a playground or something… if we want to pretend its night, we can put like a moon in the front or the back, if we want to pretend that its day we can put a sun, you can imagine it being a sea and then you’re in the sea, and then you can imagine it at home and then you can be at home, like you should, just, imagine it like you want it to be.”
- Josephine
WIKIPEDIA
Friendship Baptist Church was originally known as Virginia Avenue Baptist Church. Organized in 1875, the church is one of Washington, D.C.'s oldest African-American congregations.
The former church building, located at 734 First Street SW, was built by James A. Boyce in 1886. Friendship Baptist Church moved from that building in 1965 and it was subsequently occupied by Miracle Temple of Faith in about 1974. Later it was occupied by Redeemed Temple of Jesus Christ (during 1982–2001). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The First Street church building is now occupied by the Blind Whino Arts Club, and was repainted with a full wrap-around mural. The building has a central gable facade with two corner towers. It is described as having "a vernacular interpretation of the Romanesque Revival style with some Gothic Revival details (namely lancet arch windows)."
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