Ralph Bunche House
- Architect
- Hilyard Robert Robinson
- Style
- International Style
- City
- Washington, DC
Ralph Bunche commissioned this house from architect Hilyard Robinson in 1941, while teaching at Howard University and working at the Office of Strategic Services and later the State Department. Bunche went on to become a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and his choice of the International Style for a personal home in Brookland is unusual for Washington residential architecture of the period. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
the style
The house is built in the International Style, a spare modernist idiom rarely used for Washington residences, which made Bunche's choice notable for a home rather than an institutional building.
More on International Stylethe architect
Hilyard Robert Robinson, a prominent African American architect, designed the house for Bunche in 1941.
significance
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and named an endangered place by the D.C. Preservation League in 2001.
nearby
- Engine Company No. 26
- Franciscan Monastery & Memorial Church of the Holy Land
- Newton Theater
- Old Engine Company 26
- Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
- Hecht Company Warehouse