445 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
Harry T. Howell designs No. 445 with terra-cotta shells, cartouches and arched top windows
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No. 445 was the easternmost of four tenements that Harry T. Howell designed for Roberts & Gaines in 1898-99. Its front of orange iron-spot Roman brick has rock-faced sandstone around the first-story windows, terra-cotta cartouches over the second- and fourth-story windows, shells with garlands at the third story and round-arched openings at the fifth. The galvanized-iron cornice that once spanned all four buildings survives only on Nos. 443 and 445.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Clerks, cooks and machinists fill Howell's tenements on East 136th Street in the 1900 census
The 1900 census showed that Howell's eight tenements on the block, No. 445 among them, housed households generally less affluent than those in the nearby rowhouses. Heads of household worked as salesmen, cooks, painters, clerks, bookkeepers, telegraph operators, confectioners, carpenters and machinists. Residents included both native-born Americans and immigrants, the largest groups from Germany and Ireland, and some children as young as fourteen held jobs.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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