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Sugar Hill, Manhattan

Sugar Hill is a National Historic District in the Harlem and Hamilton Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City,[3] bounded by West 155th Street to the north, West 145th Street to the south, Edgecombe Avenue to the east, and Amsterdam Avenue to the west.[4] The equivalent New York City Historic Districts are:

For the same-named district in Detroit, see Sugar Hill Historic District (Detroit, Michigan).

Location

Roughly bounded by W. 155th St., 145th St., Edgecombe Ave. and Amsterdam Ave.
Manhattan, New York

40°49′38″N 73°56′36″W / 40.82722°N 73.94333°W / 40.82722; -73.94333

75 acres (30 ha)

1883-1930[2]

Richard S. Rosenstock, Arthur Bates Jennings, Frederick P. Dinkelberg, Henri Fouchaux, Theodore Minot Clark, Neville & Bagge, Schwartz & Gross, George F. Pelham, Horace Ginsbern, C. P. H. Gilbert, Clarence True, John P. Leo, Samuel B. Reed, William Grinnell, William Schickel et al.[2]

Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival, Beaux-Arts, Neoclassical, Colonial Revival, Gothic Revival, neo-Grec, etc.[2]

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April 11, 2002

Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill HD: June 27, 2000
extension: October 3, 2001
Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northeast HD: October 23, 2001
Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northwest HD: June 18, 2002

The Federal district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1] The Federal district has 414 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, three contributing structures, and one contributing object.[6]

Nicholas C. and Agnes Benziger House, 345 Edgecombe Avenue (, 1890–91) - has also been used as a hospital, nursery and housing for the homeless

William Schickel

, 10 St. Nicholas Place (Samuel B. Reed, 1886–88) - A Romanesque Revival residence built for James A. Bailey of the Barnum & Bailey Circus

James A. and Ruth M. Bailey House

14 and 16 St. Nicholas Place (William Grinnell, 1883–84) - detached frame houses clad in wood shingles

Queen Anne style

Fink House, 8 St. Nicholas Place (Richard S. Rosenstock, 1885) - house, would later be combined with...

Queen Anne style

Baiter House, 6 St. Nicholas Place (Theodore G. Stein, 1893–94) - ...and used as a sanitarium, a hospital, a hotel, and a group home

713-721 St. Nicholas Avenue (Hugh M. Reynolds, 1890–1891) - Row houses in the Victorian Romanesque Revival style

718-730 St. Nicholas Avenue (, 1889–1890) - A Romanesque Revival row

Arthur Bates Jennings

729 and 731 St. Nicholas Avenue (Theodore Minot Clark, 1886–1886) - two houses faced in and shingles

Manhattan schist

757-775 St. Nicholas Avenue (, 1894–1895) - A Renaissance Revival style row which is said to be "among the finest in the district."

Frederick P. Dinkelberg

409 Edgecombe Avenue Apartments (, 1916–1817) - Originally the Colonial Parkway Apartments. Home to Babe Ruth as an infant, Aaron Douglas,[11] Thurgood Marshall, W. E. B. Du Bois,[7] and Marvel Cooke.[12]

Schwartz & Gross

555 Edgecombe Avenue. Several noted big band leaders lived here in the 1940s including Count Basie, Andy Kirk, Don Redman, Erskine Hawkins, Benny Carter and Cootie Williams.

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Among the many notable buildings in the Sugar Hill area are:[2]

Benziger House

Benziger House

Bailey House

Bailey House

14 (right) and 16 (left) St. Nicholas Place

14 (right) and 16 (left) St. Nicholas Place

Fink House

Fink House

Baiter House

Baiter House

715 (left) - 721 (right) St. Nicholas Avenue

715 (left) - 721 (right) St. Nicholas Avenue

729 and 731 St. Nicholas Avenue

729 and 731 St. Nicholas Avenue

409 Edgecombe Avenue Apartments

409 Edgecombe Avenue Apartments

featured a "Sugar Hill" sketch throughout its one-year run in 1969.[13][14]

The Leslie Uggams Show

the first rap group with a single in the Top 40, took their name from the neighborhood; the band members were actually all from Englewood, New Jersey.[15]

The Sugarhill Gang

The 1974 film , starring Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones was filmed in the Sugar Hill neighborhood.[16]

Claudine

The 1994 film , about drug dealers in Harlem, stars Wesley Snipes.

Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill is mentioned in the lyrics to the jazz standard "" by Billy Strayhorn.

Take the 'A' Train

It is also referred to by rapper 's "Sugar Hill" on his album Doe or Die.

AZ

recorded "Sugar Hill Function", written by Charlie Holmes, on February 18, 1930.

Henry "Red" Allen

There is also a song by and his Fifty-Second Street Stompers – one of the four Duke Ellington small groups – called "Sugar Hill Shim-Sham", which was recorded on July 7, 1937.

Rex Stewart

The 1978 film , a modern retelling of Cinderella set in Harlem, includes a scene at the Sugar Hill Ball.[17]

Cindy

List of New York City Landmarks

National Register of Historic Places listings in New York County, New York

Bushman Steps

. westharlemcpo.org. Hamilton Heights - West Harlem Community Preservation Organization. Archived from the original on 2008-12-21. Retrieved 2009-01-04.

"Hamilton Heights - West Harlem"