Ralph Bunche House was the home
Ralph Bunche
Ralph Johnson Bunche (; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize f ...
commissioned from
Hilyard Robinson in 1941. It is located at 1510 Jackson Street,
Northeast, Washington, D.C.
Northeast (NE or N.E.) is the northeastern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It encompasses the area located north of East Capitol Street and east of North Capitol Street.
Geography
Northeast includes the 35 neighbor ...
, United States, in the
Brookland neighborhood.
He lived there while he was a professor at
Howard University, and worked at the
State Department
The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the country's fore ...
, from 1941 to 1947.
It was listed in the
National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
It was named as an endangered place by the D.C. Preservation League in 2001.
See also
*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington, D.C.
*
Ralph J. Bunche House, his home in
Los Angeles, California
*
Ralph Johnson Bunche House, the home in
Queens, New York, where Bunche lived for 30 years until his death in 1971.
References
External links
hometownlocator.commapcarta
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Houses completed in 1941
Houses in Washington, D.C.
Brookland (Washington, D.C.)