Skip to content
Entrepreneurs & Business Pioneers

Philip A. Payton Jr.

c. 1876 – 1917

Harlem, New York City

Real estate entrepreneur Philip A. Payton Jr. led the Afro-American Realty Company (1904–1909), leasing and renting Harlem buildings to Black tenants and helping make Harlem a center of Black New York.

This entry is a stub. Its content has not been verified yet.

Row house apartment buildings in Harlem, upper Manhattan, photographed in 2018
Credit: Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress. License: Public domain (Highsmith Archive, no known restrictions).

Content pending: verified research needed.

Related entries

Sources

  1. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, "Mount Olive Fire Baptized Holiness Church" designation report (LP-2320, 2009) (Primary source)
  2. Oliver Ayers, review of Kevin McGruder, "Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem" (Columbia University Press, 2021) (Scholarly)

Suggest a correction: opens once the database is connected.