265 Alexander Avenue

Mott Haven | built 1888

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1887
Carpenter Thomas Overington commissions a six-house row on Alexander Avenue
This house belongs to a row of six three-story brick houses on the west side of Alexander Avenue between 138th and 139th Streets, put up in 1887-1888. Richard Lomax drew the plans for Thomas Overington, whom the Landmarks Preservation Commission elsewhere identifies as a carpenter; Overington also built a row of four apartment houses around the corner on East 139th Street for John Demarest.
“This row of six brick houses, three stories high, was designed by Richard Lomax for Thomas Overington and was built in 1887-1888.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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