Helder / Brandon Residence

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a.k.a. Walker-Welborn Annex (Colored)

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c1878	House is built
1921	Old Folks Home (Colored)
1929	Walker Hospital Annex
c1960	Becomes hotel
1984	Razed

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philip c helder 1878-1882 blemker tillman & co built >1876 <1878 several names [<1883->1885] apts? boarding house? round porch two story brick brandon c1894 420 william [1889]-[1894] m c brandon of holt and brandon ice built new residence nearer downtown 1895 rusche home

1921/1923 sold for colored old folks home 1920s Elvira Ann (Roach) Colored Old Folks Home 1924 operned health clinic for TB

walker annex 1929 serving african american run by RN with doctors from welborn visiting as needed did some surgeries renamed 1933 welborn walker annex and welborn annex 1944 in accordance with the main hospital

closed 1953 after segregation bells tourist home 1954 (colored)

hotel [1962]

http://local.evpl.org/views/viewimage.asp?ID=899922 fixtures including chandeliers and mantels pilfered from propperty when it sat vacant efforts to save building began by Evansville NAACP for its historical significance to black community planned to rehab for offices for Six Sons construction co long since abandoned partially destroyed by fire spring 1984 torn down shortly after

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