417 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.

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

1892
No. 417 joins a 51-house neo-Grec row built for rent by O'Gorman and Stursberg
No. 417 was finished in 1892 in the second of two long parallel rows that William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg built between Willis and Brook avenues. O'Gorman designed the rental houses in the neo-Grec style, with stone-trimmed brick fronts and metal cornices, matching a row the pair had completed three years earlier on East 140th Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1992
June 2
Seven speakers back landmark protection for No. 417 and its neighbors at a city hearing
City landmarks commissioners took testimony on June 2, 1992, about a proposed Mott Haven East Historic District, which takes in No. 417 and the rest of the surviving East 139th Street row. Seven speakers supported the designation and nobody spoke against it, although one questioned including city-owned apartment buildings and another was undecided. The commission designated the district on April 5, 1994.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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