Women's Culture Collective Coffeehouse

This bungalow in the Forest Park neighborhood was the location of meetings of the Women’s Collective Coffeehouse, an early lesbian-focused organization in the first years of the gay liberation movement. Few places associated with lesbians have been identified in Raleigh. In the period, the house was owned by the Unitarian Universal Fellowship of Raleigh, which made the space available to the collective. The UUF campus on Wade Ave. was also evaluated under this project for association with other LGBTQIA+ focused groups.

Build Date: ca. 1917
LGBTQIA+ Associated: Ca. 1978-1984

Location

119 Hawthorne Road

Metadata

RHDC, “Women's Culture Collective Coffeehouse,” Raleigh Historic, accessed October 1, 2026, https://mail.raleighhistoric.org/items/show/203.