434 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1889

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

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1889
January
No. 434 rises with stone-trimmed brick and a cast-iron stoop in O'Gorman's 1889 row
Built by William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg and finished in January 1889, No. 434 shares the row's Philadelphia brick front with stone trim, a galvanized metal cornice on angular paneled brackets, a flat roof and a stone stoop. Like its neighbors, it was put up as a single-family house to be rented out.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1994
No. 434 keeps its original double doors, though with their carving stripped
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The row's houses were built with double-leaf, round-headed wood doors carved with fan-shaped leaf decoration. At the 1994 designation, No. 434 was one of four houses whose original doors survived, though their ornament had been taken off and their top panels glazed.
“For original doors with ornament removed and top panels glazed, see Nos. 434, 420, 436 and 444.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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