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Dunns Josephine Hotel

A boutique hotel that turns Overtown’s legendary past into an intimate, living experience.

The Josephine Hotel was built in 1938 and the Dunn Hotel in 1947 — two of the few remaining structures from that era, built to serve Black entertainers who were barred from staying on Miami Beach during segregation. Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Josephine Baker all passed through these doors — not as guests of convenience, but as figures finding refuge and community in a neighborhood that welcomed them when the rest of the city wouldn’t.

Today, founder Kristin Kitchen has restored and reimagined the two buildings as one boutique hotel, with 15 guest rooms each dedicated to a Harlem and Miami Renaissance legend — Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Cab Calloway, Marcus Garvey, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and more. Staying here is less a transaction than a conversation with history. As part of the Sojourn Heritage Accommodations brand, the Dunns-Josephine is an invitation to experience Overtown through the lens of those who shaped it and to understand the neighborhood’s past.