426 East 136th Street

Mott Haven | built 1891

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.

1891
No. 426 is built with a fan-capped stepped gable, since cut down
No. 426 has a plain arrangement of rectangular windows on its lower floors and a simple Palladian window on the third story. It was built with a stepped gable like the one at No. 416, but topped with a fan-shaped cap instead of a triangular one. The lower steps of the gable were later filled in and the top steps and their cap removed; the house shares a chimney with No. 424.
“This house originally had a stepped gable similar to that at No. 416, except that it was crowned by a fan-shaped cap…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Lawyer Cornelius Earley makes his home at 426 with his wife, daughter and a servant
The 1900 census lists Cornelius Earley, a lawyer, at No. 426 with his wife, their daughter and one servant. Next door at No. 424 that year lived Canadian-born school principal Frances Ward and his household.
“This was home, in 1900, to lawyer Cornelius Earley, his wife and daughter, and a single servant.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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