Editing Barbershop Harmony Society (section)

==Headquarters and membership==
[[File:WTN PeepHoles 161 edit1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Current headquarters in Nashville]]
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In 2003, in preparation for a new headquarters location, the Society sold both Harmony Hall, a historic lakefront mansion in [[Kenosha, Wisconsin]],<ref>"[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_cb_00118.hcsp Remembering historic Harmony Hall] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017004423/http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_cb_00118.hcsp |date=October 17, 2007 }}". Barbershop Harmony Society. November 28, 2006. Retrieved on May 19, 2007.</ref> and its nearby facility (known as Harmony Hall West) located in a strip mall which the Society purchased in 1976 and renovated. HHW had housed finance, merchandising, IT and membership. Operations and staff from both buildings were consolidated into a remodeled HHW.

In 2006 the Society announced plans to move its headquarters to [[Nashville, Tennessee]].<ref name="seek">[http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_057336.hcsp "Barbershop Harmony Society to seek HQ site in Nashville"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626112555/http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_057336.hcsp |date=June 26, 2006 }}. Barbershop Harmony Society. January 20, 2006. Retrieved on May 19, 2007.</ref> In August 2007, the Society completed the relocation to 110 Seventh Avenue North, in Nashville.

In June 2018, the society announced it would allow women to join as full members, with each chapter deciding whether to remain all-male or add a mixed or all-women's chorus.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621603558/after-80-years-the-barbershop-harmony-society-will-allow-women-to-join |title=After 80 Years, The Barbershop Harmony Society Will Allow Women To Join |date=June 20, 2018 |first=Andrew |last=Flanagan |publisher=NPR |access-date=July 3, 2018 }}</ref> Since 2009, women had been allowed to join as associates.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.apnews.com/7806ed33bd724a9fb347b96c0e9eca15 |first=Kristin M. |last=Hall |work=Associated Press News |date=June 20, 2018 |access-date=July 3, 2018 |title=Barbershop Harmony Society to integrate women after 80 years }}</ref>