429 East 139th Street

Mott Haven | built 1892

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

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1875
Irish-born builder William O'Gorman moves his practice to the Bronx and joins Hermann Stursberg
William O'Gorman, who designed and built this house, came to New York from Ireland at 17 in 1863 or 1864 and rose to superintendent for the builder Daniel Crimmins. He opened his own architecture practice in Yorkville in 1866 and designed Italianate brownstone rows on East 70th and East 71st streets. In 1875 he shifted his business to the Bronx, where he and Stursberg developed rows of houses in Mott Haven.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1892
O'Gorman and Stursberg finish 429 East 139th Street as part of a long rental row
No. 429 dates from 1892, when William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg completed a row of fifty-one houses, all 16 feet 8 inches wide, running the full length of the block on East 139th Street from Willis to Brook Avenue. O'Gorman, who acted as his own architect, gave them flat brick fronts with bold incised stone ornament and metal cornices decorated with large spade-shaped leaves. Stursberg's realty company kept No. 429 through the mid-1940s.
“Hermann Stursberg's realty company retained the first five buildings in the row (Nos. 403 to 411) and six others (Nos. 425, 427, 429, 431, 443 and 445)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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