Historic Sites - Jubilee Hall of Fisk University
13 Jubilee Hall of Fisk University
- Jubilee Hall of Fisk University.
Fisk University was founded by the American Missionary Association and the Western Freedman’s Aid Commission in 1866 as Fisk School, a free school for blacks in Nashville. Jubilee Hall, an example of the High Victorian Gothic style, was completed in 1875, the first permanent building erected for the higher education of African Americans in the United States. Money for the building was raised by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, whose worldwide singing tours saved the school from financial collapse in the 1870s. During that time Nashville became a center for black religious music. A portrait of the original Jubilee Singers, painted by Queen Victoria’s court painter, hangs in Jubilee Hall, now a University residence hall.
Jubilee Hall of Fisk University Web Site
1000 Seventeenth Avenue, North,
Nashville, TN 37209
(615) 329-8500
