Sugar Hill, Harlem

Sugar Hill Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
NYC Landmark
row houses at 718-730 St. Nicholas Avenue (2014)
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Location	Roughly bounded by W. 155th St., 145th St., Edgecombe Ave. and Amsterdam Ave. Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates	40°49′38″N 73°56′36″W / 40.82722°N 73.94333°W / 40.82722; -73.94333Coordinates: 40°49′38″N 73°56′36″W / 40.82722°N 73.94333°W / 40.82722; -73.94333
Area	75 acres (30 ha)
Built	1883-1930
Architect	Richard S. Rosenstock, Arthur Bates Jennings, Frederick P. Dinkelberg, Henri Fouchaux, Theodore Minot Clark, Neville & Bagge, Schwartz & Gross, George F. Pelham, Horace Ginsbern, C. P. H. Gilbert, Clarence True, John P. Leo, Samuel B. Reed, William Grinnell, William Schickel et al.
Architectural style	Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival, Beaux-Arts, Neoclassical, Colonial Revival, Gothic Revival, neo-Grec, etc.
NRHP Reference #	02000360
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 11, 2002
Designated NYCL	Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill HD: June 27, 2000 extension: October 3, 2001 Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northeast HD: October 23, 2001 Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northwest HD: June 18, 2002

Sugar Hill is a United States historic district in the northern part of the Hamilton Heights section of the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is roughly bounded by West 155th Street to the north, West 145th Street to the south, Edgecombe Avenue to the east, and Amsterdam Avenue to the west. The equivalent New York City Historic Districts are:

The city districts were designated between 2000 and 2002, and the Federal district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The Federal district has 414 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, three contributing structures, and one contributing object.

Parks in the neighborhood include Jackie Robinson Park, St. Nicholas Park, and smaller sites such as Johnny Hartman Square, Carmansville Playground, and William A. Harris Garden.

Sugar Hill got its name in the 1920s when the neighborhood became a popular place for wealthy African Americans to live during the Harlem Renaissance. Reflective of the "sweet life" there, Sugar Hill featured rowhouses in which lived such prominent African Americans as W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Walter Francis White and Roy Wilkins.