About The Wright-Dunbar Discovery District

The Wright-Dunbar Discovery District, also known as the West 3rd Street Historic District, is a commercial district made up of 2 and 3 story brick buildings.

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Wright Dunbar, Inc. is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the revitalization of the historically-significant commercial corridor west of downtown Dayton, Ohio, known as the Wright-Dunbar Business District.  The district is the center of the neighborhood where Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the airplane, and African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar began his career. The Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center, a 13,000 sq. ft. National Park site, stands in the heart of the Wright-Dunbar Discovery District and educates visitors from all over the globe on the lives of these great individuals

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The vision of Wright Dunbar, Inc., is to create a vibrant, urban, walkable community of innovation, creativity and collaboration where diverse families, businesses, neighbors and visitors, live, work, recreate and learn together as a testimony to the historic legacy of the Wright brothers and Paul Laurence Dunbar.

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Wright Dunbar, Inc. is the catalyst and facilitator for urban community and economic revitalization of the historic Wright-Dunbar Village and the West Third Street corridor maintaining a legacy of creativity, collaboration, and innovation of the Wright brothers and Paul Laurence Dunbar.