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.

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.

[3] During the 1950s, Bunche lived in Parkway Village, an apartment complex in Kew Gardens Hills that was built for UN employees and that was one of the first in the country to be racially integrated.

In 1952 Sturm sold the property to Ralph Bunche and his wife,[3] who were raising three children; the couple used the award money that came with the Nobel Prize to buy the house.

[3] The house is also situated on the crest of a hill and contains a terraced flagstone walkway leading from the street to the front door.

[3] The doorway, within the gable, is built within a round arched, stone-trimmed opening and holds a wooden door with a small, rectangular window covered by a decorative iron grille.