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Oscar Stanton De Priest House

The Oscar Stanton De Priest House is an historic apartment building at 4536–4538 South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in , . It was built in 1920, and one of its units was from 1929 to 1951 home to Oscar Stanton De Priest, the first African-American to be elected to the United States Congress from a northern state.
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  • Type: Residential building
  • Description: apartment building in Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Address: 4536-4538 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, IL 60653

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Harold Washington Cultural Center and Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church.

Theater building
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is a performance facility located in the historic neighborhood of Chicago's South Side. It was named after Chicago's first African-American Mayor Harold Washington and opened in August 2004, ten years after initial groundbreaking. is situated 1,100 feet south of Oscar Stanton De Priest House.

Church
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The is a historic church at 4501 S. Vincennes Avenue in the community area of , . Built in 1899, the building was originally a synagogue for the Isaiah Temple congregation. is situated 1,100 feet east of Oscar Stanton De Priest House.

Railway station
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43rd is a station on the 's 'L' system in the community area in Chicago, Illinois, on the Green Line at 314 E 43rd Street, three blocks east of State Street. is situated 1,800 feet north of Oscar Stanton De Priest House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grand Boulevard and Bronzeville.

Suburb
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on the of , , is one of the city's Community Areas. The boulevard from which it takes its name is now Martin Luther King Jr.

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, the Black Metropolis, is a mecca of on Chicago's South Side, just miles south of downtown. Gwendolyn Brooks published poetry in the Chicago Defender, Andrew Rube Foster created Negro League Baseball, and Louis Armstrong kept his trumpet singing at the Sunset Cafe to keep Al Capone off his back.

Suburb
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is the 37th of 's 77 community areas. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the . It is named for a small park also known as within the neighborhood, which is in turn named for Melville Weston Fuller, a Chicago attorney who was the Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.

Oscar Stanton De Priest House

Latitude
41.81188° or 41° 48′ 43″ north
Longitude
-87.61723° or 87° 37′ 2″ west
Levels
3
Open location code
86HJR96M+Q4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 210914847
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­house
Wiki­data ID
Q7106258
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In Other Languages

“Oscar Stanton De Priest House” goes by many names.
  • Russian: “Дом Оскара Стэнтона Де Приста”

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Highlights include Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church and Birch Park.

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