430 East 136th Street
Mott Haven | built 1891
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1900
Real estate agent John Kirk's family and a Virginia-born servant live at No. 430
In 1900 the census found real estate agent John Kirk at 430 East 136th Street with his wife, three sons and one servant. The servant was an 18-year-old Black woman from Virginia. The Landmarks Preservation Commission noted that a Black live-in servant in a middle-class household was relatively rare then, when most people in that work were immigrants from Ireland or elsewhere in Europe.
- 1980
The Landmarks Commission holds hearings on No. 430 and its row
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On July 8, 1980, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held public hearings on Nos. 414 through 432 East 136th Street, including No. 430, as separate items. It held more hearings on November 15, 1983, covering Nos. 408 through 440 and Nos. 415 through 425. Owners and residents backed designation both times, and the row finally became part of the Bertine Block Historic District on April 5, 1994.
- 1994
No. 430 keeps its paneled door but loses its gable's slate by 1994
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No. 430 has square-headed first-floor openings under splayed brick lintels and still had its original paneled front door and wrought-iron railings at designation in 1994. A shingled hood on four brick corbels shelters its three second-floor windows, and a steep pedimented gable like No. 420's rises above. By then the gable had lost its slate covering; the two third-floor windows had originally held eight-over-one sash.
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