Visit Website: Address: 242 West 123rd Street Private residence, Harlem, New York, NY 10027, United States.
In the wide and varied history of hotels, guesthouses, and other lodgings of NYC the Harlem Flophouse holds a unique place. Originally built as a single-family home, this historic Victorian townhouse was converted to a lodging house in 1917. The accommodation was created as a temporary hotel for the Great Northern Migration following The Civil War, when over 1.5 million people of African descent fled northward to escape the oppression of the Jim Crow south. The term “flophouse” came into being during the ensuing Harlem Renaissance to describe an inexpensive hotel that catered to jazz musicians, artists, dancers, poets, writers, drunks and other philosophers of the human experience.
