On a peaceful block of brownstones in West Harlem, an unassuming sign in front of 58 W. 120th St. announces that the home is for sale. The house, whose listing price is $4.595 million, has five floors, five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, an elevator, original detailing on the banisters and walls and the echo of Maya Angelou.  

That’s because this home in Mount Morris Park West Historic District, east of Malcolm X Boulevard, belonged to the writer and civil rights activist herself; it is where she kept a suite of rooms, entertained friends like Oprah and cooked meals. The house has been emptied of furniture, but small traces of Angelou remain, from the colors in the bathroom to the 80s-feeling kitchen to the deep red carpet on the staircase in the foyer.

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