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Oscar Stanton De Priest House

Chicago, US

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 Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1920, and one of its units was from 1929 to 1951 home to Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871–1951), the first African-American to be elected to the

United States Congress from a northern state. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark on May 15, 1975. It is not open to the public.

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