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This brownstone, designed by architect Alexander Wilson in the Italianate style and constructed in 1869 by James Meacher and Thomas Hanson, is typical of the post-Civil War row houses built in Harlem. Writer Langston Hughes, one of the foremost figures of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance cultural movement, occupied the top floor as a workroom. He said that Harlem was the source of his literary inspiration, and he spent the last twenty years of his life in this building writing poetry, nonfiction, humor, and musical compositions.
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