{"nrhp_refnum":"92000308","name":"Dunlap's Dining Room","other_names":["Dunlap House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4322 Fourth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.54778098400004,"lon":-121.45616380499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Colonial Revival house with a two-story rear addition at 4322 Fourth Avenue in the Oak Park section of Sacramento, built in 1907 and later used as a family-run restaurant.","why_significant":"The building is tied to George T. Dunlap, a pioneer African-American Sacramento family's leading member and a successful food service entrepreneur. For 38 years it housed Dunlap's Dining Room, a popular restaurant for local families, clubs, officials and professionals. It also reflects how small African-American communities in the Depression era built businesses serving a mostly white clientele.","narrative":"Dunlap's Dining Room is a Colonial Revival house in Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood, built in 1907 by George T. Dunlap as a four-room cottage. It grew to eight rooms over two decades, gaining a two-story rear addition in the 1920s. Its hipped roofs, weatherboard siding and full-width porch with classical columns remain, along with interior hardwood floors and French doors. Dunlap, born in Sacramento in 1884, worked as a Southern Pacific chef before running restaurants, railway food service and the California State Fair concession for 41 years. In 1930, with his wife Annie Louise, he opened the family home to the public as a dining room serving Southern-style dinners. It operated for 38 years and drew middle-class diners, government officials and professionals. The property was recognized for its link to a pioneer African-American family and for what it shows about Black business life in Sacramento between 1917 and 1942.","period_of_significance":"1917-1942","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Current use is listed as single dwelling; the dining room closed in 1968 when Annie Louise Dunlap became ill. The rear garage and storage building is noncontributing because of severe alteration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.310115-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/92000308.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000308/0385bf9a78-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000308/0385bf9a78-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Joan McHale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunlap%27s_Dining_Room.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Joan McHale</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunlap%27s_Dining_Room.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860574","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunlap%27s_Dining_Room","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16967504"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/dunlaps-dining-room-92000308/"}