277 Alexander Avenue

also 321 East 139th Street | Mott Haven | built 1882

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

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1882
Architect Charles Romeyn designs No. 277 as the corner house of a twelve-house row for Thomas Kilpatrick
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No. 277, at the corner of 139th Street, opens a row of twelve three-story brick houses on high basements built in 1881-1882 on the west side of Alexander Avenue. Charles Romeyn designed them for Thomas Kilpatrick in a style moving from French neo-Grec toward Queen Anne, facing the older 1860s row across the avenue.
“It was designed by Charles [?]. Romeyn for Thomas Kilpatrick and was built in 1881-1882…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1969
Landmarking takes in No. 277 on the avenue once nicknamed the Irish Fifth Avenue
On July 29, 1969, the Landmarks Preservation Commission made Alexander Avenue's rows, including No. 277, part of the Mott Haven Historic District. Its report recalled that the avenue had been called the Irish Fifth Avenue and Politicians' Row, though many nationalities lived there, and that by the late 1960s most residents were Puerto Rican families who had recently settled in the area.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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