415 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
William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg build No. 415 as part of a full-block row
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No. 415 dates from 1892, when the partners William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg finished a row of fifty-one brick rental houses along the north side of East 139th Street. O'Gorman was both builder and architect, and the houses were built in roughly a year.
“Constructed in about a year's time, the row was virtually identical to a parallel row…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1892
No. 415 shows the row's paneled double entrance doors
No. 415 is one of four houses the 1994 landmark report cites as examples of the row's doors: two round-headed paneled wood leaves with carved fan-shaped leaf ornament above the lowest panels. Like its neighbors, it has a Philadelphia brick front trimmed in incised stone.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Census takers find German and Irish families renting houses like No. 415
Census records from around 1900 show that the houses in O'Gorman and Stursberg's rows on East 139th and 140th streets were rented mostly by first- or second-generation German and Irish families, often with relatives and one servant. The heads of household included a draughtsman, a wool importer, a horse dealer, a glue broker and a pilot, as well as a fire chief, a newspaper editor and a physician.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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