Paul Laurence Dunbar House

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Description

Home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar at 219 N. Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1940-1970. After Dunbar's death in 1906 his mother, Matilda Dunbar, continued to live in the house until her death in 1934. In 1936 the Dunbar house became the first state memorial to honor an African American.

Repository Citation

"Paul Laurence Dunbar House" (2022). Paul Laurence Dunbar Gallery. 11.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dunbar_photos/11

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Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection

Collection

Ohio History Connection P365