419 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1900

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.

1897
June
Work begins on a row planned with eleven more buildings behind it on East 141st Street
Construction of the row that includes No. 419 started in June 1897, with Walter H.C. Hornum as architect. The plan also called for eleven more buildings on through-the-block lots directly behind it on the south side of East 141st Street. Work on that second row was halted in 1899 and formally given up the next year; the 141st Street lots were later merged and built up instead with larger, more profitable tenements.
“Construction on this parallel row, however , was suspended in 1899, and officially abandoned the next year.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
No. 419 forms a matched pair with No. 417 in Hornum's row
Hornum's row on East 140th Street follows a pattern in which three-story houses are separated by pairs of two-story houses, and No. 419 forms a pair with No. 417. Each pair is set apart from the others by its brick color, trim and ornament. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report cites No. 419 as one of the houses sharing the row's matching front doors: single glazed wooden leaves topped by transoms.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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