421 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1900

    No. 421 rises a story above its neighbors under an ogee gable

    No. 421 is one of the three-story-and-basement houses that punctuate Walter H.C. Hornum's 1897-1900 row for William O'Gorman, standing between two pairs of two-story houses. It is 17 feet 9 inches wide. Each of the taller houses carries a different stone-trimmed gable rising from a tiled mansard roof, and No. 421's takes an ogee shape, while the row's other tall houses have a pointed gablet, a stepped Dutch gable and a Flemish gable.

    “No. 409, pointed gablet; No. 415, stepped Dutch gable; No. 421 , ogee gable; No. 427, shaped Flemish gable.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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