435 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
William O'Gorman, the Irish immigrant who built this row, brings his business to the Bronx
The builder and designer of No. 435, William O'Gorman, emigrated from Ireland in 1863 or 1864 at age 17, worked under the builder Daniel Crimmins and then started his own architecture practice in Yorkville in 1866. In 1875 he moved his business to the Bronx and partnered with Hermann Stursberg, whose family had owned land on this block since at least 1874; the two went on to build several rows of houses around Mott Haven.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1892
435 East 139th Street goes up in about a year as part of William O'Gorman's 51-house row
No. 435 is one of the 1892 houses that William O'Gorman designed for the row he developed with Hermann Stursberg on the north side of East 139th Street; the whole row of fifty-one houses took about a year to build. The houses were given stone stoops with heavy cast-iron newels and railings, stone lintels and band courses, and grid-patterned wrought-iron grilles at the basement. Nos. 449 to 503, at the row's eastern end, were demolished in the 1960s for P.S. 40.
“Constructed in about a year's time, the row was virtually identical to a parallel row built three years earlier along the south side of 140th Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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