436 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
William O'Gorman finishes No. 436 in a 51-house neo-Grec row
No. 436 belongs to a row of fifty-one single-family brick rental houses that William O'Gorman and his partner Hermann Stursberg raised along the whole south blockfront of East 140th Street, from No. 406 to No. 506. O'Gorman served as his own architect. The row went up in two phases, with Nos. 406 to 484 completed in January 1889 and the rest that May.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1994
No. 436 keeps its original front doors, though altered over time
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1994 report named No. 436 among the houses on this row that still had their original doors, though their carved ornament had been removed and the upper panels glazed. The houses also kept stone stoops with heavy cast-iron newels, balusters and handrails, and wrought-iron grilles with scrolled edges over their basement doors and windows.
“(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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