407 East 139th Street

Mott Haven | built 1892

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

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1892
O'Gorman and Stursberg finish No. 407 in a 51-house rental row on East 139th Street
No. 407 was completed in 1892 as one of fifty-one single-family brick houses that developers William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg put up for rent along the whole north side of the block, from No. 403 east to No. 503. O'Gorman acted as his own architect, and the row went up in about a year under a building application filed in 1888.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1945
Hermann Stursberg's realty company holds No. 407 into the mid-1940s
Co-developer Hermann Stursberg's realty company kept the five westernmost surviving houses, Nos. 403 through 411, including No. 407, plus six others farther east. The company held them until the mid-1940s, while O'Gorman's heirs sold most of the row's other houses in the first two decades of the century.
“Co-developer Hermann Stursberg's realty company retained the first five buildings in the row (Nos. 403 to 411) and six others…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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