415 East 136th Street

Mott Haven | built 1893

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.

1892
Edward Bertine hires local architect John Hauser for a Romanesque Revival row at Nos. 415-425
With Keister's ten houses across the street complete, Edward Bertine started six single-family houses on the north side of East 136th Street in 1892, this time with John Hauser as architect. Hauser had an office at 1441 Third Avenue and first shows up as an architect in city directories that year, so the row was probably one of his first jobs. The brick fronts use Romanesque Revival round arches with molded-brick and stone detail, and each house sits atop a tall stoop with wrought-iron railings.
“Bertine commissioned John Hauser, a local architect with an office at 1441 Third A venue, to complete the row…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
English-born tobacco broker John L. Jackson lives at No. 415 with his family
The 1900 census recorded John L. Jackson, a tobacco broker born in England, at No. 415 with his German-born wife, three daughters and a son. His neighbors in the six-house row that year included a German-born coal dealer, a metal worker, a railroad lighterage superintendent and a minister.
“At No. 415, English-born tobacco broker John L. Jackson, his German-born wife, and their three daughters and one son…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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