Tag: Augusta Savage
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La Sinagoga
On East 125th Street, just east of Park and the tall Lee Building (that boarders Metro North) a low 3 story building with dormer windows and arched brownstone 2nd floor windows was a vaudeville venue called The Orpheum. The view of The Orpheum (below) is from 1904: After that, the building was called The Harlem…
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Harlem Community Art Center
It is hard to imagine the federal government funding an art center in Harlem today, but in the depression, the Democratic administration did just that. The Harlem Community Art Center was located in the building that now has Cohen Fashion Optical on the ground floor – at the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue.…
