411 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
Developers O'Gorman and Stursberg complete No. 411 three years after a twin row on East 140th Street
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No. 411 was finished in 1892 in a row of fifty-one rental rowhouses that William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg built across the full East 139th Street blockfront. The row was almost identical to the one the same partners had completed three years earlier behind it, on the south side of East 140th Street, and to a group of eight houses built by 1885 directly across 139th Street.
“…the row was virtually identical to a parallel row built three years earlier along the south side of 140th Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1945
No. 411 stays with Hermann Stursberg's realty company through the mid-1940s
No. 411 was the easternmost of the first five houses in the row, Nos. 403 to 411, that co-developer Hermann Stursberg's realty company kept. The company also held six other houses on the block and still owned them through the mid-1940s; it had sold one more, No. 423, in the mid-1930s.
“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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