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  title info:
    title: Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill
    sub title: Alexander Hamilton's Old Harlem neighborhood through the centuries
  name:
    name part: James, Davida Siwisa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 403 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West Harlem. It was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, a young Norman Rockwell discovered he liked to draw and Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. Through words and pictures, Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill traces the transition of this picturesque section of Harlem from lush farmland in the early 1600s to its modern-day growth as a unique Manhattan neighborhood highlighted by stunning architecture, Harlem Renaissance gatherings and the famous residents who called it home. Stretching from approximately 135th Street and Edgecombe Avenue to around 165th, all the way to the Hudson River, this small section in the Heights of West Harlem is home to so many significant events, so many extraordinary people and so much of New York's most stunning architecture, it's hard to believe one place could contain all that majesty. Author Davida Siwisa James brings to compelling literary life the unique residents and dwelling places of this Harlem neighborhood that stands at the heart of the country's founding. Here she uncovers the long-lost history of the transitions to Hamilton Grange in the aftermath of Alexander Hamilton's death and the building boom from about 1885 to 1930 that made it one of Manhattan's most historic and architecturally desirable neighborhoods, now and a century ago. The book also shares the story of the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, one of the first in the nation to focus on arts and music. The author chronicles the history of the James A. Bailey House, as well as the Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan's oldest surviving residence and famously known as George Washington's headquarters at the start of the American Revolution. By telling the history of its vibrant people and the beautiful architecture of this lovely, well-maintained historic landmark neighborhood, Jame…
  table of contents: Author's Historical Note -- Dyckman and Hamilton Maps -- Note on Spelling -- Preface -- The Neighborhood -- Dutch Beginnings and Native Americans -- The Making of Harlem Heights -- Harlem Land Grants, Mount Morris, and a Revolution -- Harlem Grange and the Duel -- The Jumels, the Street Grid, and Audubon -- The Bailey Mansion, St. Luke's, and a Building Boom -- The Great Migration and the Morris Museum -- The Hamilton Museum and the Hamilton Theatre -- The Harlem Renaissance -- The Heights Identity and the Black Mecca -- Jazz Clubs, The Numbers, and Firsts -- The Advent of the Sixties, Generational Changes, and the Arts -- A Neighborhood's Changing Face -- Parlor Jazz and the Great Renovation -- Changing Demographics and a Revived Hamilton Heights -- Bailey House, Jazz, and the Renaissance Remix -- Where It Leads -- Afterword -- Addendum A: Excerpted Harlem Ordinances and Land Patents -- Addendum B: Photos Past and Present.
  note: Davida Siwisa James.
  note: Includes blibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    geographic: Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District (New York, N.Y.)
  subject:
    topic: Historic buildings
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    topic: Neoclassicism (Architecture)
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Domestic
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    topic: Historic districts
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    geographic: New York (N.Y.)
    topic: Buildings, structures, etc
  subject:
    geographic: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
    topic: Buildings, structures, etc
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    topic: Conservation and restoration
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    geographic: Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
    topic: Buildings, structures, etc
  classification: NA108.N4 J36 2024
  identifier: 1531506143
  identifier: 9781531506148
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230812
    record change date: 20240429143406.2
    record identifier: in00004788163