Dunbar Hospital
580 Frederick St., Detroit, Michigan
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Description
As of September 2012 this house is boarded up and is no longer being used by Detroit Medical Society Headquarters. In fact it has been many years since anyone occupied the dwelling. Though needing a restoration, the house is still in savable condition.Michigan Historical Marker reads: At the time of World War I, health care for black Detroiters was inferior to that available for whites. Black physicians could not join the staffs of Detroit's white hospitals. On May 20, 1918, thirty black doctors, members of the Allied Medical Society (now the Detroit Medical Society) incorporated Dunbar Hospital, the city's first non-profit community hospital for the black population. It also housed the first black nursing school in Detroit. Located in a reform-minded neighborhood, this area was the center of a social and cultural emergence of the black residents of the city during the 1920s. In 1928 Dunbar moved to a larger facility and was later renamed Parkside, operating under that name until 1962. In 1978 the Detroit Medical Society, an affiliate of the National Medical Association, purchased the site for their administrative headquarters and a museum.
National Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 19, 1979
- Reference number
- 79001172
- Architectural style
- Victorian: Romanesque
- Areas of significance
- Health/Medicine; Ethnic Heritage - Black; Politics/Government; Architecture; Social History
- Level of significance
- National
- Evaluation criteria
- A - Event; C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- Building
- Historic functions
- Single dwelling; Hospital
- Periods of significance
- 1900-1924; 1875-1899
- Significant year
- 1892
Sources
- Wikipedia
- Rattrak
- National Register database - Reference number 79001172 (Search for documents)
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