411 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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1899
Builders halt a planned companion row behind 411 East 140th Street
The row that includes No. 411, begun in June 1897, was meant to be one half of a larger project, with eleven more buildings on through-the-block lots facing the south side of East 141st Street. Work on that second row stopped in 1899 and the plan was formally dropped the following year. The East 141st Street lots were later merged and filled with bigger tenement buildings, which earned more for their owners.
“Construction on this parallel row, however, was suspended in 1899, and officially abandoned the next year.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
No. 411 is one of six paired two-story houses in Walter Hornum's row
No. 411 is among the six two-story-and-basement houses, each about 17 feet wide, that Walter H.C. Hornum grouped into three pairs between the taller three-story houses of the row, completed between 1897 and 1900. The pairs share flat roofs and galvanized metal cornices, and each pair is set apart from the others by its brick color, trim and decorative details. Wrought-iron grilles cover the basement windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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