James Weldon Johnson Residence
187 West 135th Street | Harlem | built 1910
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1925
James Weldon Johnson moves into an apartment at this address
Writer, composer and civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson occupied a unit at 187 West 135th Street from 1925 until his death in 1938. During those years he was general secretary of the NAACP, which had hired him in 1916, and he lobbied for anti-lynching legislation.
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- 1976
The residence is named a National Historic Landmark
The James Weldon Johnson Residence was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark on the same day in 1976. The building is paired with a similar five-story brick structure in the Romanesque style, and the two share a party wall.
Source: Wikipedia
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