439 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 and Hermann Stursberg finish No. 439 in their long neo-Grec row
No. 439 belongs to a row of 51 single-family brick houses, first rented out, that O'Gorman and Stursberg built along the whole north side of East 139th Street under a building application filed in 1888. O'Gorman served as his own architect. The houses, each 16 feet 8 inches wide, have Philadelphia brick fronts with incised stone trim, bracketed metal cornices and stone stoops with cast-iron railings.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1920
No. 439 is converted from a one-family house into a two-family dwelling
Around 1920 the house at 439 East 139th Street, built as a single-family rental, was made into a two-family dwelling, as was its neighbor at No. 441, according to Department of Buildings records cited by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Other houses in the row followed later: No. 421 became a multiple dwelling in 1948.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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