441 East 136th Street

also 431 East 136th Street | Mott Haven | built 1931

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

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1898
Roberts & Gaines put up a row of four eleven-family tenements, including No. 441
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Between 1898 and 1899 builders Hugh L. Roberts, with an address at 703 East 135th Street, and Furman V. Gaines, a West 93rd Street resident, erected four five-story tenements at Nos. 439 to 445 East 136th Street. Architect Harry T. Howell designed them in the Renaissance Revival style, faced in orange iron-spot Roman brick with stone and white terra cotta. Each was laid out for eleven families: two on every floor and one in the basement.
“…were built by Hugh L. Roberts of 703 East 135th Street and Furman V. Gaines who lived on West 93rd Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1994
Nos. 439 and 441 are found combined into a single building at the 1994 designation
By the time the Bertine Block Historic District was designated in 1994, the tenement at No. 439 had been joined on the inside to its eastern neighbor, No. 441. The entrance of No. 439 was closed and its doorway filled with windows, leaving No. 441's shallow stoop with stone cheek walls as the way in. None of the original doors or windows survived.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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