AN URBAN LIVIN BLACK HISTORY MOMENT
AN URBAN LIVIN BLACK HISTORY MOMENT
THE MADAM OF THE HUDSON RIVER
This home was designed in 1918 by an African American architect,
Vertner Woodson Tandy, for an African American cosmetics magnate, Madame
CJ Walker, on the Hudson River north of New York City. When Madame CJ
Walker was asked why she built such a palatial home, she replied that
she had not built it for herself but so that blacks could see what could
be accomplished with hard work and determination.
Villa Lewaro,
the name of the estate, has significance for both its architect and
original owner. Tandy was New York's first licensed black architect.
This building was known as his best work.
No one knows Madame
CJ Walker's exact worth, but she was considered to be the nation's first
African American woman millionaire.
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