Dunbar Apartments

	Dunbar Apartments
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	New York City Landmark
	courtyard (2014)
Location	W. 149th and 150th St; btwn Frederick Douglass & AC Powell Jr. Blvds.; Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates	40°49′30″N 73°56′18″W / 40.82500°N 73.93833°W
Area	4.2 acres (1.7 ha)
Built	1926–28
Architect	Andrew J. Thomas
Website	https://dunbarapts.com/
NRHP reference No.	79001601
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 29, 1979
Designated NYCL	July 14, 1970

The Dunbar Apartments, also known as the Paul Laurence Dunbar Garden Apartments or Dunbar Garden Apartments, is a complex of buildings located on West 149th and West 150th Streets between Frederick Douglass Boulevard/Macombs Place and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They were built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. from 1926 to 1928 to provide housing for African Americans, and was the first large cooperative aimed at that demographic.^[2] The buildings were designed by architect Andrew J. Thomas and were named in honor of the noted African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

The complex consists of six separate buildings with a total of 511 apartments (as constructed) and occupies an entire city block. The buildings center around an interior garden courtyard, with each building U-shaped so that every apartment receives easy air flow and direct sunlight at some point during the day. The Dunbar is considered the "first large garden-complex in Manhattan."^[3]

The complex was designated a New York City Landmark in 1970,^[2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1.
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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[nycland-2] New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1.

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