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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 Priz ...
commissioned from Hilyard Robinson in 1941. It is located at 1510 Jackson Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C., United States, in the Brookland neighborhood. He lived there while he was a professor at
Howard University Howard University is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and accredited by the Mid ...
, and worked at the Office of Strategic Services (1941-1943) and the
State Department The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs o ...
(1943-1947). It was listed in the
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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
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Ralph Johnson Bunche House Ralph Johnson Bunche House, the last home of American diplomat Ralph Bunche (1903–1971), is a National Historic Landmark in New York City. It is a single-family home built in 1927 in the neo-Tudor style, and is located at 115–24 Grosvenor ...
, the home in
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, where Bunche lived for 30 years until his death in 1971.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bunche House (Washington, D.C.), Ralph 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.)