299 Alexander Avenue

also 318 East 140th Street, 297 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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1881
No. 299 belongs to the Kilpatrick row by Charles W. Romeyn
No. 299 is one of the twelve brick houses, Nos. 277 to 299, that architect Charles W. Romeyn designed for Thomas Kilpatrick. The row was built in 1881-1882 in a style the Landmarks Preservation Commission described as transitional between French neo-Grec and Queen Anne.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1882
No. 299's roof cornice sits at one level shared by the whole row
The roof cornice of No. 299 and its eleven neighbors runs at a single height, even though each house's cornice rests on four brackets and turns back at the party walls. Horizontal stone band courses below the window lintels and at the first-floor sills also run the length of the row, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission praised in 1969 for its unity and good state of preservation.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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