291 Alexander Avenue

Mott Haven | built 1899

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

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1882
No. 291 rises in a Romeyn row tied together by stone bands and paired doorways
No. 291 belongs to the row of twelve houses at 277-299 Alexander Avenue that Charles W. Romeyn designed for Thomas Kilpatrick, built in 1881-1882 in a style moving from neo-Grec toward Queen Anne. Stone band courses run below the window lintels and at first-floor sill level, and each house's four-bracket cornice returns against its party wall while keeping a single height along the row.
“…tied together by horizontal stone band courses just below the window lintels and at the sill level of the first floor windows…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1969
Landmarks officials find the row of No. 291 unusually well preserved
Reviewing Alexander Avenue in 1969, the Landmarks Preservation Commission found the twelve-house row that includes No. 291 unusually well preserved. Apart from the pair at 281-283, every paired stoop in the row still had its original iron handrails and imposing cast-iron newel posts, and the commission credited the row's distinction to the nobility of its scale.
“All the paired stoops, except those at Nos. 281-283 retain their original iron handrailings and imposing cast iron newel posts. This row is unusually well preserved…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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