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The Legendary “Striver’s Row”, St. Nicholas Historic District In Harlem 1891 –

It is both a national and a New York City district and consists of row houses and associated buildings designed by three architectural firms and built-in 1891–93 by developer David H. King, Jr.

These are collectively recognized as gems of New York City architecture, and “an outstanding example of late 19th-century urban design”:

There are three sets of buildings:

• the red brick and brownstone buildings on the south (even-numbered) side of West 138th Street and at 2350–2354 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard was designed by James Brown Lord in the Georgian Revival style;
• the yellow brick and white limestone with terra cotta trim buildings on the north (odd-numbered) side of 138th and on the south (even-numbered) side of 139th Street and at 2360–2378 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were designed in the Colonial Revival style by Bruce Price and Clarence S. Luce;
• the dark brick, brownstone, and terra cotta buildings on the north (odd-numbered) side of 139th Street and at 2380 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White.

The district was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

The district’s name reflects the nearby St. Nicholas Park .

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The townhouses in his new project, which were originally called the “King Model Houses”, were intended for upper-middle-class whites, and featured modern amenities, dark woodwork, and views of City College .

King’s idea was that the project would be “on such a large scale and with such ample resources as to ‘Create a Neighborhood’ independent of surrounding influences.”

The houses sit back-to-back, which allowed King to specify that they would share rear courtyards.

The alleyways between them – a rarity in Manhattan – are gated off; some entrance gates still have signs that read “Walk Your Horses”.

At one time, these alleys allowed discreet stabling of horses and delivery of supplies without disrupting activities in the main houses.

Today, the back areas are used almost exclusively for parking.

King sold very few houses and the development failed, with Equitable Life Assurance Society , which had financed the project, foreclosing on almost all the units in 1895, during an economic depression.

By this time, Harlem was being abandoned by white New Yorkers, yet the company would not sell the King houses to blacks, and so they sat empty until 1919–20 when they were finally made available to African Americans for $8,000 each.

Some of the units were turned into rooming houses, but generally, they attracted both leaders of the black community and upwardly-mobile professionals, or “strivers”, who gave the district its colloquial name.

Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, is 139th Street, known among Harlemites as ‘strivers’ row.’ It is the most aristocratic street in Harlem.

Stanford White designed the houses for a wealthy white clientele. Moneyed African-Americans now own and inhabit them.

When one lives on ‘strivers’ row’ one has supposedly arrived.

Harry Rills resides there, as do a number of the leading Babbitts and professional folk of Harlem.

By the 1940s, many of the houses had decayed and were converted to single room occupancies (SROs).

Much of the original decorative detail inside the houses was lost at this time, though the exteriors generally remained unaltered.

With the post-1995 real-estate boom in Harlem, many of these buildings are being restored to something resembling their original condition.

Photo credit: 1) 249 (right) – 265 (left) West 139th Street The St. Nicholas Historic District. 2) Row houses on West 138th Street designed by  Bruce Price and Clarence S. Luce (2014). 3) 2014 Striver’s Row Gate No. 6 W 138 northwest closeup. By Wikipedia.

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Also known as the St Nicholas Historic District, these streets were the darling of Harlem’s elite in the 1920s. The graceful row houses and apartments, many of which date back to the 1890s, were designed by three of the era’s most celebrated architects: James Brown Lord, Bruce Price and Stanford White.

White’s row of elegant Italianate creations along the northern side of W 139th St are arguably the most beautiful. Keep your eyes peeled for alleyway signs advising visitors to ‘walk your horses.’

W 138th & 139th Sts. btwn Frederick Douglass & Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvds, Harlem

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• 145th St • 7 min walk

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A Look Into the Homes of Harlem’s Elite

By Elaine Louie

• Sept. 26, 2014

The domestic style of Harlem’s elite will be on exhibit starting this weekend in five designers’ vignettes at Macy’s, and in real life at the second annual Strivers’ Row Home Tour in Harlem on Oct. 5.

Strivers’ Row is composed of two blocks from West 138th to West 139th Streets, between Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. In 1891, David H. King Jr., a developer, bought the land and hired three New York architecture firms, including McKim, Mead & White, to design the homes.

“Strivers’ Row style is a microcosm of what New York is all about: to do their best, to achieve their best selves and to fulfill themselves,” said Michael Henry Adams, an architectural and cultural historian, who is a consultant to the tour. “Those houses were occupied by African-Americans who were the elite of Harlem, but compared to the white elite of New York, they had not nearly the resources, but wanted to live the same way. But most people lived in only part of the house, and made apartments in the rest of the house.”

Elena Addomine, the president of Insol Consulting, a management consultant company that advises technology companies, and her husband, Robert Lampietti, who works in technology at State Street Bank, bought their four-story house on West 139th Street in 2008. At that time, it was divided into five small apartments. “It had been butchered over the course of decades,” Ms. Addomine said.

The couple renovated it, and transformed it into two apartments, a triplex that includes the parlor floor, second and third floors, and a separate one-floor apartment for her office. Working with her contractor, Ms. Addomine created an elliptical staircase for the triplex, so that natural light from the skylight poured down onto the parlor floor. It replaced a square staircase that was so worn, its spindles were missing. “I couldn’t go upstairs,” she said.

For the Macy’s exhibition, called “Strivers’ Row Style: Uptown Comes Downtown,” participating designers include Keita Turner, Henry Mitchell, Byron C. James-Rodrigues, Alma Nugent and Michael Anthony Arguello.

The Macy’s show house opens at 3 p.m. Sunday, with a reception that will have live jazz and food tastings from Harlem restaurateurs, and will be on view through Oct. 5. Admission is free. The Strivers’ Row Home Tour starts at 11 a.m. on Oct. 5. Tickets for self-guided tours to 10 homes start at $25; guided tours to three additional homes and several churches start at $50. Information: striversrowhometour.org.

An earlier version of this article contained outdated information about “Strivers’ Row Style: Uptown Comes Downtown,” a show house at Macy’s. After the article was posted, the number of vignettes in the exhibition was reduced from eight to five. Those by Michael Henry Adams, Stefan Handl and Mario Buatta are no longer featured.

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