419 East 136th Street
Mott Haven | built 1893
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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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- 1892
Edward Bertine starts a six-house row at 415-425, including 419, with architect John Hauser
Having finished his ten Queen Anne houses across the street, developer Edward D. Bertine began a second row in 1892: six single-family houses at 415 to 425, among them No. 419. He did not return to George Keister but hired John Hauser, a neighborhood architect whose office was at 1441 Third Avenue and whose name first appears with the title of architect in city directories in 1892. The landmarks report judges that this row must be one of Hauser's earliest works.
- 1892
No. 419 and its neighbor 421 form the matching center pair of Hauser's Romanesque row
No. 419 is one of the two central houses of the six-house row, identical to No. 421 except at the doorway, where 419 has a flat brick arch with rock-faced brownstone keystone and imposts. Next to the entrance, two rectangular windows sit beneath a carved wooden segmental-arched spandrel panel. At the top, a brick cornice on corbeled brackets is shaped as a run of pointed arches, and the parapet above it rests on bricks laid in tooth-like bands.
“The "C" houses, the central pair of the row, located at Nos. 419 and 421, are identical except for the arch at the entrance.”
- 1900
Metal worker Valentine Fischer makes his home at 419 with his wife, two nephews and a niece
When the 1900 census taker came through, No. 419 was home to Valentine Fischer, a metal worker who had been born in Germany. His wife was German-born as well, and the household also included two nephews and a niece. Elsewhere in the same six-house row that year were a tobacco broker, a coal dealer, a railroad lighterage superintendent, a minister and a builder.
“…at No. 419, German-born metal worker Valentine Fischer, his German-born wife, two nephews, and niece…”
Nearby
- 417 East 136th Street2 entries
- 421 East 136th Street2 entries
- 415 East 136th Street2 entries
- 423 East 136th Street2 entries
- 425 East 136th Street2 entries
- 431 East 136th Street3 entries