In Nashville, a former Catholic school-turned-swingers club is reborn as a homeless shelter
The red brick building at the corner of Drexel Street and Seventh Avenue South in Nashville has a colorful history.
In the early 1900s, it was home to a Catholic school founded to educate Black children in Jim Crow Tennessee. By the early 2000s, the building had become a swingers club.
But in November, it reopened as a faith-based shelter for the homeless, due in part to COVID-19. The swingers club-turned-shelter, now known as Drexel House, is one of a number of pandemic innovations made by faith-based groups that serve the homeless.