445 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. 445 in their long neo-Grec row
No. 445 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
Stursberg's realty company keeps No. 445 until the mid-1940s
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No. 445 was one of eleven houses in the row that Hermann Stursberg's realty company retained through the mid-1940s, long after O'Gorman's heirs had sold off most of the others. The company also held on to the row's first five houses, Nos. 403 to 411, and to Nos. 425 through 431 and No. 443.
“Nos. 449 to 503 demolished in the 1960s for the construction of P.S. 40 and its playground…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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