284 Alexander Avenue

Mott Haven | built 1865

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

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1865
A ten-house brick row, among the very first in the Bronx, reaches completion
No. 284 is one of ten three-story brick houses at 276-294 Alexander Avenue that went up between 1863 and 1865. The Landmarks Preservation Commission judged the group one of the borough's earliest rows of houses, perhaps the earliest of all. Its owner expected the largely rural district to turn urban one day, so he built a uniform row instead of separate houses. Another house in the row, No. 280, belonged to Edward Willis, a major developer of Bronx land.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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