297 Alexander Avenue

Mott Haven | built 1899

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1881

    No. 297 rises in Thomas Kilpatrick's row facing an older terrace

    No. 297 is part of the twelve-house row on the west side of Alexander Avenue between East 139th and East 140th Streets, which Charles W. Romeyn designed for Thomas Kilpatrick and which was built in 1881-1882. The Landmarks Preservation Commission saw the row as a complement to the row of houses directly across the avenue, and as an early example of planning an entire blockfront at once.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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