The 485-room Dunbar Hotel, named for Paul Laurence Dunbar, opened in 1946 as one of the largest hotels for African Americans in the U.S. . Black owned and operated, the the hotel had 485 bedrooms. It was demolished in 1974. Photographer Addison Scurlock, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute.
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