Deep Ellum Community Center

The Deep Ellum Community Center occupies an eighteen ninety-two building on Elm Street that once operated as the City Hotel. The structure serves as a hub for the neighborhood’s cultural programming, housing exhibition spaces, artist studios, and nonprofit organizations like the Deep Ellum Foundation and Deep Ellum Radio. Visitors here find the permanent history exhibit, When You Go Down in Deep Ellum, which traces one hundred and fifty years of the district’s evolution from its origins as a railroad-adjacent commercial nexus to its status as a center for blues and jazz.