Sugar Hill is a historic neighborhood in upper Harlem and Hamilton Heights, bounded roughly by 155th and 127th Streets between Edgecombe and Amsterdam Avenues, that earned its evocative name in the 1920s as a haven of the "sweet life" for wealthy African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance. Its elegant rowhouses and apartment buildings were home to luminaries including W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway, and the district is now recognized as a National Historic District.