• Avalon Housing, East Davis Street

Purchased by Avalon Housing in 1994, this building could tell a story or two. Originally built in the late 1800’s and remodeled several times, its most famous incarnation is as Junior Smith’s Como Club – one of the best-known local black nightclubs of the 1940’s and 1950’s. According to an article in the October, 2004 Observer, the Como was “as famous for it’s 25 cent fish sandwiches and fried chicken baskets as it was for its music.” Still a setting for great social activity, these fourteen efficiency units share a former one-bedroom apartment as common space for movie nights and monthly meals.