408 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1889

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

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1889
William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg finish No. 408 in their neo-Grec row
No. 408 is one of the two-story-and-basement houses in the 51-house row O'Gorman and Stursberg built along the south side of East 140th Street, filed in 1887 and completed in two phases in 1889. O'Gorman designed the row himself. Each house is 16 feet 8 inches wide, with a Philadelphia brick front trimmed in stone and a galvanized metal cornice with paneled brackets.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1890
No. 408 is among the first houses in the row to find tenants
The 1890 New York police census found two-thirds of the first group of finished houses already occupied, and No. 408 was among them. Besides No. 408, residents were recorded at Nos. 406, 410, 414 and 420, at 424 through 434, and at 440, 446 and 448. In the second group, finished in May 1889 farther east, only Nos. 468 and 470 had occupants that year.
“…residents were listed at Nos. 406 to 410, 414, 420, 424 to 434, 440, 446 and 448…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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