Oscar Stanton De Priest House
- Year
- 1920
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Oscar Stanton De Priest House at 4536–4538 South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive is a three-story brick apartment building completed around 1920. From 1929 until his death in 1951, one of its second-floor units was home to Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871–1951), the first African-American elected to Congress from a northern state, who lived there with his wife, Jessie.
the building
Bays and flower boxes. Called architecturally unexceptional in its own record, the building carries projecting rectangular bays flanking a recessed entry, bracketed flower boxes on the second and third floors, and a bracketed cornice below the roofline. It holds eight units, two per floor including the basement, over a full basement.
significance
Designated a National Historic Landmark on May 15, 1975, for its association with De Priest's congressional career. The house is not open to the public.
nearby
- Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church Complex
- Robert S. Abbott House
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church Building
- Belmonte Flats
- First Church of Deliverance
- Anthony Overton Elementary School