414 East 136th Street

Mott Haven | built 1891

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1891

    George Keister designs No. 414 as an end house of his ten-house Queen Anne row

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    No. 414 is one of the two matching 'A' houses that bookend George Keister's 1891 row for developer Edward D. Bertine; its near twin is No. 432 at the other end. The central opening of the three-part parlor window reaches down into the rock-faced stone base under stained-glass transoms, and the third story centers on an oval window with web-like sash between two eight-over-eight windows. Corbeled brick holds up an arched cornice and a decorative brick parapet.

    “The windows have rock-faced stone sills and splayed brick lintels and they flank an oval window with web-like sash and a brick enframement…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1900

    Merchant Joseph Robitscher's family lives at No. 414 in the 1900 census

    The 1900 census, the first census to record the row's residents, listed the merchant Joseph Robitscher at No. 414 with his wife, Bianca; both had been born in Europe. Their household also included two daughters, a son, a granddaughter and a servant from Ireland.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1967

    The AIA Guide to New York City names the row at Nos. 414 to 432 the Bertine Block

    The ten houses from No. 414 to No. 432 appeared in pictures in an 1897 book, The Great North Side or Borough of the Bronx. Seventy years later the first edition of the AIA Guide to New York City, by Norval White and Elliot Willensky, called the row the 'Bertine Block'. The 1988 third edition stretched the name to cover every rowhouse in the present historic district.

    “…was given the appellation , "Bertine Block," in the first edition of the AJA Guide to New York City in 1967…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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