Jordan Building

CTL-E-1364 · Address · site · 1916 (ground broken)

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A three-story combination store and apartment building commissioned by Black songwriter and music publisher Joseph J. Jordan; the 1985 NPS Black Metropolis nomination identifies it as the start of the series of Black-owned/financed building projects on South State in the 1920s.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-037; source research type(s): place.

Sources

NPS Black Metropolis Thematic Nomination (NRHP 64000173) (primary source)

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