The King’s Model House: A Harlem Home’s Journey Through Time, 1890

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In the summer of 1890, developer David H. King Jr. embarked on an ambitious project that would shape the face of Harlem for generations to come. The King’s Model Houses, as they were called, were envisioned as a block of “first-class character” homes between what are now Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglass…

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