Color photo close-up of the stage details showing an octagon-shaped column painted bright green with gold leaf trim outlining each side of the octagon, with several layers of stage curtains behind. ©DD Photoworks
National Baptist Hotel theater and ballroom
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...along with a 600 capacity meeting auditorium, gymnasium, print shop, beauty parlor and newsstand. Count Basie, Pegleg Bates, and Joe Louis were only a few of the top name entertainers, sports celebrities and political figures who came during its prime. Blacks could now choose between two bathhouses.
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