Strivers\' Row

Strivers' Row indicates a series of three lines of joint houses ( townhouses ) located at the west of the district of Harlem, with Manhattan (New York). Their name of origin was King Model Houses in the memory of their promoter David King. They were intended for the white middle-class and were built between 1891 and 1893. Various architects worked on each of the three lines, which unaniment are unaniment recognized like one of the jewels of the architecture New-Yorkaise. The northern part which is on the 139e Rue was conceived by the cabinet of architects McKim, Mead and White in the style néo-Italian. Those of the 138e Rue are the work of James Lord Brown, Bruce Price and Clarence S. Luce. Among the famous people who lived in these houses, one rerouve Eubie Blake, Fletcher Henderson, W.C. Handy, which gave to the houses their current name. During Years 1940, the majority of the houses fell in ruins, and were converted into dwellings with single room (Individual Room Occupancies). The majority of the original decorative details inside the buildings were lost at that time, even if the external ornaments remained for the majority intact. With the real boom which began in 1995, of the restorations of the majority of the buildings of the district started so that they find their initial state.

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