Hoagy's Birthplace
This file appears in: Hoagy Carmichael's Boyhood Home
You are looking at 214 W Dunn Street as it looks today. This is the home where Hoagy was born in 1899. The house is built in the vernacular bungalow style common in working class neighborhoods of Bloomington. It is located very close to the Indiana University campus and Bloomington's downtown square. The neighborhood was racially integrated at the time and Hoagy's childhood friends reflected that diversity.
This file appears in: Hoagy Carmichael's Boyhood Home
Hoagy Carmichael's Boyhood Home
The house on Dunn Street is one of several homes where the Carmichael family lived during Hoagy’s childhood. Born in Bloomington on November 22, 1899, Howard Hoagland was the first child and only son of Howard Clyde (“Cyclone”) and Mary Lida Robison…