437 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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1892
William O'Gorman designs 437 East 139th Street with Philadelphia brick and spade-leaf cornice
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No. 437 was completed in 1892 as part of a fifty-one-house rental row that developers William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg built along East 139th Street, with O'Gorman as architect. Its 16-foot-8-inch facade is Philadelphia brick trimmed in incised stone, under a galvanized metal cornice with angular brackets and large spade-shaped leaf ornaments. Twenty-one two-story houses from Nos. 405 to 445 survive, led at the west end by the taller No. 403.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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