421 East 136th Street

Mott Haven | built 1893

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's second row, with 421 near its center, goes up to John Hauser's designs
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No. 421 belongs to the group of six Romanesque Revival rowhouses at 415 to 425 East 136th Street, built in 1892-93 as developer Edward D. Bertine's second project on the block, with John Hauser as architect. The three-story houses over raised basements are faced in tawny brick with brick and brownstone trim, and each is entered on its west side from a high stone stoop with wrought-iron railings. Every house is topped by a brick corbel table and parapet, the corbeling differing from house to house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Railroad lighterage superintendent John Van Gelder heads the household at 421
In 1900 the census listed John Van Gelder, superintendent of lighterage on a railroad, as the head of the household at No. 421. He lived there with his wife, a son, two daughters and a sister-in-law, along with a German servant. Next door at No. 419 lived a German-born metal worker and his family.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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