From its start, the building housed the offices of the Independent Order of St. Luke, an African-American fraternal society headquartered in Richmond.

[3] The remodeled building was designed by Charles Thaddeus Russell, the first Black architect to be licensed in Richmond.

It was his first professional commission, when Maggie L. Walker, the head of the Order, asked him to design the building to better support the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank.

[4] The building has a yellow pressed-brick facade and red brick secondary walls.

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