Ralph Johnson Bunche House
Historic house in Queens, New York
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Ralph Johnson Bunche House, the last home of American diplomat Ralph Bunche (1903–1971),
is a National Historic Landmark in New York City. It is a single-family home built in 1927 in the neo-Tudor style, and is located at 115–24 Grosvenor Road, Kew Gardens, Queens. It is named after Ralph Bunche, who helped to found the United Nations in 1945. In 1950, he became the first African American and first person of color to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for mediating armistice agreements between Israel and its neighboring countries.
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