page_title: Hotel Theresa
section_title: Notable guests, tenants and employees
hierarchical_section_title: Hotel Theresa / Notable guests, tenants and employees
caption_attribution_description: The Hotel Theresa, located at 2082-96 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West 124th and 125th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was, in the mid-20th century, a vibrant center of African American life in the area and the city.It was built in 1912-13 as an apartment hotel and was designed by the firm the firm of George &amp; Edward Blum, who specialized in designing apartment buildings. It is now an office building known as Theresa Towers. (Source: Designation Report)
context_page_description: The Hotel Theresa is located at 2082-96 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West 124th and 125th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. In the mid-20th century, it was a vibrant center of African American life in the area and the city.
  The 13-story hotel was built in 1912-13 by German-born stockbroker Gustavus Sidenberg, whose wife the hotel is named after, and was designed by the firm of George & Edward Blum, who specialized in designing apartment buildings. The hotel, which was known in its heyday as "the Waldorf of Harlem", exemplifies the Blums' inventive use of terra-cotta for ornamentation, and has been called "one of the most visually striking structures in northern Manhattan."
  The building, now an office building known as Theresa Towers, was designated a New York City landmark in 1993 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
context_section_description: Muhammad Ali - boxer
  Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - actor
  Louis Armstrong - musician, singer
  Josephine Baker - dancer
  Ron Brown - politician
  Fidel Castro - President of Cuba
  Ray Charles - singer, musician
  Kenneth Clark, - educator,
  Sam Cooke, - singer, musician
  Dorothy Dandridge - actress
  Duke Ellington - jazz musician, bandleader, composer
   
  Jimi Hendrix - rock musician
  Lena Horne - singer
  Zora Neale Hurston - author, anthropologist
  Andy Kirk - musician, bandleader (managed the Theresa bar)
  A. Philip Randolph - activist, anti-poverty activist
  Charles Rangel - politician (desk clerk)
  Little Richard - singer, musician
  Joe Louis - boxer
  Malcolm X - activist
  Sugar Ray Robinson - boxer
  Dinah Washington - singer
  Little Willie John - singer
caption: The Theresa from below at 124th Street (2013)
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