True Reformer Building, View from the northeast showing primary facades, September 1988
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Credit: Betty Bird
This file appears in: True Reformer Building: This landmark of U Street NW is considered one of the first buildings in the United States to be designed, funded, and built by the Black community.
True Reformer Building: This landmark of U Street NW is considered one of the first buildings in the United States to be designed, funded, and built by the Black community.
The United Order of True Reformers served as a bank and insurance company that catered to the Black community, and was the first major commission of prominent Black architect John A. Lankford. The…