288 Alexander Avenue
Mott Haven | built 1865
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1865
An owner betting on a future city builds No. 288 in a uniform row of ten
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No. 288 was completed by 1865 as part of a row of ten brick houses on the east side of Alexander Avenue between 139th and 140th Streets, begun in 1863. The Landmarks Preservation Commission called the row an important piece of urban design: although the area was then mostly rural, the owner foresaw that it would become fully urban and built matching houses accordingly, treating the whole block front as a single composition.
“…the owner foresaw that this primarily rural area would one day become strictly urban and, accordingly, constructed his houses in a uniform row…”
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