339 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1877

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

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1877
A small mansard-roofed house goes up for Mr. Tiemeyer at 339 East 140th Street
This small house and its neighbor at No. 341 were built in 1876-1877 for a Mr. Tiemeyer and are now overshadowed by larger houses to the west. Console brackets are the theme of the pair, holding up the first-floor bay windows and the hoods over the doors. No. 339 keeps its mansard roof, whose cornice and pedimented dormers carry the same kind of bracket, and in 1969 the commission wrote that the two high-stooped houses would make a charming pair if returned to their original look.
“These two small houses, dwarfed by the scale of the later houses to the west, were built in 1876-1877 for Mr. Tiemeyer.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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