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Sunday, January 3, 2016
Strivers' Row, 138th St. (North side), Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York
Developer David H. King hired 3 architectural firms to design middle
class "striver" housing on 138th and 139th Streets, between Frederick
Douglass Blvd. and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. Construction was
1891-1893. King had built the 1889 New York Times Bldg. and the bae of
the Statue of Liberty. The yellow brick and white limestone with terra cotta trim buildings on the north (odd-numbered) side of 138th Street and at 2360-2378 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were designed in the Colonial Revival style by Bruce Price and Clarence S. Luce.
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