The home of Maggie Walker, who in 1903 became the first woman to charter and serve as president of a bank in United States history — and did so as a Black woman in the Jim Crow South. The site commemorates one of the most remarkable lives in American history: Walker led the Independent Order of Saint Luke, a mutual aid society, and used it as a platform to build Black economic institutions in Richmond that survived and grew through decades of segregation.
The house is preserved as it was in Walker's lifetime, with original furnishings and detailed interpretation of her life and work. The site sits in the Jackson Ward neighbourhood, which was the cultural heart of Black Richmond for a century.