416 East 136th Street
Mott Haven | built 1891
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1891
Developer Edward D. Bertine, a former milk dealer, builds the row and moves into No. 416
Edward D. Bertine spent $63,500 assembling land on East 136th Street in 1891 and started the ten-house row designed by George Keister. City directories list him selling milk in Manhattan through the 1870s and into the early 1880s, adding groceries by 1883, and first as a builder in 1889-90. After his first row was finished he moved onto the block, and an 1897 book on the Bronx pictured his house at No. 416.
- 1891
Keister gives the developer's own house pointed arches and a stepped gable
No. 416, Bertine's own home, stands out in the row for the pointed arches at its first-story openings and for its stepped gable. Beside the door, a wide parlor window drops into the rock-faced stone base and is topped by a big stained-glass transom, pointed at the top, that is still in place. The same pairing of pointed-arched door and window group appears at Nos. 420 and 428.
“No. 416 is notable for the pointed-arched openings on the first story and for its stepped gable…”
- 1900
Edward Bertine lives at No. 416 with his wife Sophia in 1900
The 1900 census found the builder Edward Bertine still living at No. 416 with his wife, Sophia, their daughter, and a servant who had been born in Europe. The house resembles No. 426 farther along the row, though the two are not identical.
“In 1900, Edward Bertine's household consisted of his wife, Sophia, his daughter, and a European-born servant…”
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