412 East 136th Street

Mott Haven | built 1878

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

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1877
Bookkeeper Frederick Richards commissions No. 412 and moves in with his young family
Frederick Richards, a bookkeeper, was one of three individual owners who each ordered a house in this neo-Grec trio from Rogers & Browne in 1877. The 1880 census and city directories place him here once it was finished, with his wife, a young son and a daughter.
“The third house, No. 412, was commissioned by bookkeeper Frederick Richards who moved into the house with his wife and their young son and daughter…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1877
No. 412 keeps its high stoop and heavy galvanized-iron cornice from 1877
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The three-bay brick front of No. 412 carries only sparse brownstone trim: a belt course above the basement, window lintels with small projecting cornices, and plain rectangular sills. Its tall stone stoop still leads to paired wooden doors under a pediment on angular neo-Grec brackets. A massive galvanized-iron cornice with stylized brackets caps the two-story-and-basement facade; none of the original ironwork survives.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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