Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District and Extension

Designated: June 27, 2000
Extended: October 23, 2001

*Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District consists of 185 buildings and extension consists of fifteen buildings, built between 1885 and 1909. Development in the area happened between the mid-1880s and the First World War. The earliest building in the district is 8 St. Nicholas Place built in the Queen Anne-style in 1885. Other styles include French, Renaissance, and Romanesque Revival. There is a mix of building types including town houses, apartment buildings and row houses.

Sugar Hill achieved its greatest fame during the 1930s and 1940s when a large number of black professionals, active in law, business, medicine and the arts, took residence here.

*Excerpt from the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill LPC Designation Report & Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Extension LPC Designation Report

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The Hamilton Heights Historic District was designated on November 26, 1974

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