Dunbar Hospital

Dunbar Hospital, the first hospital in Detroit for blacks, illustrates some of Detroit's most important developments over the past century. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, this two-and-a-half story brick and ashlar building began as the home of real estate ...

National Historic Landmark-Paul Laurence Dunbar

National Historic Landmark- Paul Laurence Dunbar House

From 1903 until his death, this modest two-story red brick structure was the residence of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), the distinguished black poet.

His poetic use of black dialect to convey both the joys ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar School

Completed in 1927, the Dunbar School served as the colored high school for the predominately black Dunbar community and surrounding area. Prior to September 1925, educational opportunities for African Americans were limited to grades one through six. The masonry vernacular ...

Paul Lawrence Dunbar Apartment Complex

One of America's wealthiest men, John D. Rockefeller Jr., also expressed his generous spirit by contributing greatly to the African American community in New York City.

Rockefeller financed the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Complex, named after the nineteenth century African American ...

The Dunbar Hotel

This was the only African American hotel in Gainesville in the early 20th century. The Dunbar family welcomed touring musicians, educators, businessmen and their families.

The building has been restored at its original site.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872 - 1906

Paul Laurence Dunbar, born on Howard Street in Dayton, was the first African American to be accepted into the discipline of American literature. The son of a fugitive slave, Paul was an eloquent poet, short story writer, and ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872 - 1906

Paul Laurence Dunbar, born on Howard Street in Dayton, was the first African American to be accepted into the discipline of American literature. The son of a fugitive slave, Paul was an eloquent poet, short story writer, and ...

Dunbar House

Built by Willis Dunbar for his bride. He was superintendant of the Union Water Company. On the original property were the lumber office and sheds of the Dunbar Lumber Company, built on the site of A. Sleeper & Co.’s lumberyard ...

David Dunbar Buick

September 17 1854 – March 5 1929

American motoring pioneer & founder of

the Buick motor company of America.

David Dunbar Buick was born at No. 26

Green Street, Arbroath, which lay approx

90 metres north of this, the only remaining

building ...

Dunbar Oak

Beneath an oak around August, 1868, Col. Richard Dunbar reclined after drinking freely from a nearby spring. He felt that continued use of its waters healed him of incurable diabetes. He called the spring “Bethesda” signifying mercy. He sold the ...