407 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1900

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

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1900
Walter H.C. Hornum's row on East 140th Street ends at No. 407, a four-story tenement
Begun in June 1897 and finished in January 1900, the East 140th Street row on the block's north side was designed by architect Walter H.C. Hornum. At its west end stands No. 407, a four-story "Old Law" tenement built under the Tenement House Act of 1879 to hold five families, one apartment per floor. The darkest and most heavily ornamented building in the group, it meets its neighbor with a curved corner.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Four rental households are living in the new tenement at No. 407
When the tenement was completed in 1900, census takers found four rental households. German-born furniture dealer Seigmund Levey lived there with his wife and daughter, and Eli Partrige, a real estate manager from England, with his wife and their two girls. Virginia-born James Morris, who looked after a club, had his family there too, as did Charles Bates, 60, a dry goods superintendent, with his wife Rachel.
“Upon its completion in 1900, the tenement building contained four rental households.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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