Category:Dunbar Hotel
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This is a category about a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 76000491. |
- English: The Dunbar Hotel — the center of the Central Avenue African-American community in South Los Angeles, during the 1930s and 1940s.
- Built in 1928, it was known until 1930 as the Hotel Somerville. Upon its opening, it hosted the first national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to be held in the western United States.
- It became the most prestigious hotel in LA's African-American community, and the center of the Central Avenue jazz scene through the 1940s.
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Media in category "Dunbar Hotel"
The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total.
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Dunbar Hotel, Central Avenue, Los Angeles.JPG 3,264 × 2,448; 1.66 MB
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Dunbar Hotel.jpg 2,947 × 2,104; 2.92 MB
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Somerville Hotel, Los Angeles.JPG 2,895 × 2,316; 3.39 MB
Categories:
- African Americans in California
- Central Avenue (Los Angeles)
- Hotels in Los Angeles
- Music venues in Los Angeles
- Nightclubs in Los Angeles
- Apartment buildings in Los Angeles
- Sites in the United States connected to African American history
- Built in California in 1928
- Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
- Hotels on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles
- African American history of the 1930s
- African American history of the 1940s
- South Los Angeles
- Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Los Angeles