Strivers' Row is the colloquial name for the St. Nicholas Historic District, a celebrated set of rowhouses lining West 138th and 139th Streets in Harlem between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Frederick Douglass Boulevards, designed by three architectural firms and built in 1891–93 by developer David H. King Jr. After sitting largely vacant for years, the houses attracted upwardly mobile African American professionals — the "strivers" who gave the district its enduring nickname — and became home to luminaries including W.C. Handy and Eubie Blake during the Harlem Renaissance.