441 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. 441 in their long neo-Grec row
No. 441 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. 441 is divided into a two-family house along with its neighbor No. 439
Department of Buildings records show that 441 East 139th Street and the house next door at No. 439 were each converted to two-family dwellings in about 1920. Both had been built as single-family rentals. Elsewhere in the row, No. 421 became a multiple dwelling in 1948.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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