446 East 140th Street

Mott Haven | built 1889

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

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1889
January
William O'Gorman finishes No. 446 as part of a 51-house neo-Grec row
No. 446 belongs to a row of 51 single-family brick rental houses that William O'Gorman and Hermann Stursberg put up along the whole south side of the block, under a building application filed in 1887. O'Gorman served as his own architect, giving the two-story-and-basement houses Philadelphia brick fronts, incised stone trim and bracketed metal cornices. The western houses, Nos. 406 to 484, were done in January 1889.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
German and Irish families rent the houses in O'Gorman's row, census records show
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No. 446 was built as a rental, like every house in O'Gorman's rows on East 139th and East 140th streets. Census records from around 1900 show their tenants were mostly German or Irish families, immigrants or their children, who often shared the house with relatives and kept one servant. Heads of household included clerks, a tailor, a horse dealer, a glue broker, a pilot, a fire chief, a newspaper editor and a physician.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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