Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1900 - Theological Hall
Fisk University features the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers, originally a group of traveling students who set out from Nashville to earn enough money to save the school and raise sufficient funds to build the first permanent structure in the country solely built for the education of newly-freed slaves, the renowned and recently-restored Jubilee Hall. It is the oldest, and most distinctive, structure of Victorian architecture on the 40 acre (160,000 m²) Fisk campus.
Fisk University is also the home of a music literature collection founded by the noted Harlem Renaissance figure Carl van Vechten, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Carl van Vechten.
Among many other notable firsts, Fisk University was the first historically black college or university to earn its Phi Beta Kappa Charter in 1952.
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