292 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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1863
No. 292 goes up in a ten-house row counted among the Bronx's first
No. 292 belongs to a row of ten three-story brick houses built between 1863 and 1865 on the east side of Alexander Avenue, from No. 276 to No. 294. The Landmarks Preservation Commission judged it one of the earliest rows of houses in the Bronx, and perhaps the very first. Its owner, anticipating that the farmland around it would turn urban, laid the houses out as one uniform block front.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1865
No. 292 shares a single cornice line and matching ironwork with its row
The row that includes No. 292 was built in the local vernacular with touches of the French Second Empire, and it was designed as one block front rather than as separate houses. When the district was designated in 1969, the row still kept a uniform cornice line, and its cast-iron yard fences, gates, stoop handrailings and newel posts were mostly intact and carefully aligned, features the Commission said had become rare in New York.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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