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Above: Photos and displays at The Barrett-Peake House in Hampton on June 8, 2025.
Black Women Clubs in Virginia: Historic Barrett-Peake House in Hampton Enjoys Open House
HAMPTON, VA — Today in Hampton at 123 East Pembroke Avenue, members of the Hampton community and beyond toured the historic and newly renovated 100-year-old building now known as the Barrett-Peake House.
The City Open House event is the result of years of work spearheaded by Dr. Colita Nichols Fairfax, a professor at Norfolk State University specializing in Africana Studies research, and many others. The renovation and open house of the historic Barrett-Peake House represents a triumph of research spotlighting local history and highlighting a look at the organizing power of Black women in Virginia. Dr. Fairfax, working as the Chair of the Board of The Barrett-Peake Heritage Foundation, brought together community, historians and sponsors to make today possible.
Visitors today reviewed artifacts inside the last headquarters of the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. The organization assembled In 1907 by educator and social reformer Janie Porter Barrett, who also founded the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, was comprised of Black women active in the community who attended the annual Hampton Negro Conference. The clubs emerged late in the 19th century to address the needs of Black women and improve education and economic opportunity at a time when women faced many social hurdles.
Congressman Bobby Scott and Hampton City Council member Hope Harper were among the visitors at today’s open house event. Members of The Barrett-Peake Heritage Foundation Board were also on hand at today’s open house.
Above: The historic Barrett-Peake House at 123 East Pembroke Avenue on June 8, 2025, in Hampton, Virginia.
A historic marker outside the Barrett-Peake House in Hampton reads: This house was the last headquarters of the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, organized In 1907 by educator and social reformer Janie Porter Barrett and other women who attended the annual Hampton Negro Conference. The Federation fostered cooperation among the states many African American women’s clubs, which had emerged late in the 19th century to address the needs of women and children and to improve education, health care, home life, and economic opportunity. In 1915 the Federation opened the Industrial Home School for Colored Girls, a rehabilitation center in Hanover County for girls in legal trouble.
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Above: Board members Dr. Angela Goodloe and Lloyd Seay at the open house.
Above: Dr. Colita Nichols Fairfax gets her flowers on June 8, 2025 at
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