I f buildings have personalities, the legendary Dunbar Hotel on Central Ave. would be one of our most mercurial -- intellectual and sophisticated one minute, wild and reckless the next.. A mecca ...

But the Dunbar fell into decline and finally closed as a hotel in the mid-’70s. But now Carter’s back, a resident of room 503 in the Dunbar’s second life as a senior-living facility.

It is great to have the limelight once again shining on Central Avenue and the Dunbar Hotel, its incredible history and the days when it was the place and, lamentably, the only place where great ...

In its heyday, the historic Dunbar Hotel hosted W.E.B Dubois, Langston Hughes, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway and Lena Horne at… ...

Despite these site upgrades, representatives say that much of the Dunbar Hotel, which was built in 1928 and designated as a city Historic-Cultural Landmark in 1974, has been faithfully restored.

The hotel, renamed the Dunbar in 1930 after African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar, was the most prestigious that admitted blacks in Los Angeles. Its amenities included a restaurant, ...

Construction is underway on the much-anticipated renovation of the Dunbar Hotel, originally known as the Hotel Somerville, it was the focal point of the Central Avenue African-American community in ...

Dunbar and jazz - they both go together,” said the 59-year-old disabled veteran. And for Carter, this new community founded on the land of all that history is a jewel, recovered and restored.

Gayle Anderson was live in South Los Angeles for the grand re-opening of the Dunbar Hotel as a residence for senior housing and low-income families. She spoke with hotel developer Jordan Pynes ...