Jubilee Hall is the focal point of the Fisk University campus and one of the prettiest buildings in Nashville. Not only is the building on the National Register of Historic Places, but it's one of 30 in Tennessee on the more select list of National Historic Landmarks.
In 1871, Fisk's popular singing group, the Jubilee Singers, went on tour and raised the money to have this building built. It became the first permanent structure erected in the South for the education of African Americans. Of special interest is the Appleton Room of Jubilee Hall, totally refurbished and adorned with a 14th-century ceiling from the Castle Polheim in Austria.
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