Black Business District
On Washington Street, the district’s main corridor, shoppers could visit the photography studio of Richard Samuel Roberts; the law offices of Nathaniel J. Frederick, Matthew J. Perry, Jr., and Harold R. Boulware; the Victory Savings Bank, the Capitol Theatre, Owen & Paul, Tailors, and the Simkins building, which once housed the Lighthouse & Informer. Only a handful of structures, including the North Carolina Mutual Building, the Pearson-Champion Funeral Home, and the residence of Nathaniel J. Frederick, survive.