443 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. 443 in their long neo-Grec row
No. 443 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
1945
Hermann Stursberg's realty company holds on to No. 443 into the 1940s
While William O'Gorman's heirs sold most houses in the row during the first two decades of the 20th century, co-developer Hermann Stursberg's realty company kept eleven of them, including No. 443, until the mid-1940s. The company did sell one other house in the row, No. 423, in the mid-1930s.
“Co-developer Hermann Stursberg's realty company retained the first five buildings in the row (Nos. 403 to 411) and six others (Nos. 425, 427, 429, 431, 443 and 445) through the mid-1940s…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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