Strivers Row is a very important part of African American history. Its residents have included the performers Eubie Blake, Fletcher Henderson and Vertner Tandy, as well as, many other African American who have excelled in Law, Dentistry, and the Arts. The two rows of 1890s brownstones on 138th street and 139th street in Harlem were originally built for middle class black families, but in the 1920s and 1930s, they started attracting wealthy and influential African Americans. Today, renovated Georgian style homes go for half a million to 700,000 dollars. Strivers row is also very important street because the first African American, architect David H. King who built Madison Square Garden, and the base of the Statue of Liberty, also built them. The Row houses on these two blocks reflect the architecture of the period. The northern part of 139th street group expresses the neo-Italian style of McKim, Mead and White an architecture firm that dominated New York at the turn of the 19th century. Other designers that contributed to the building of Strivers Row are James Brown, Bruce Price, and Clarence S. Luce.