819 Manida Street

Hunts Point | built 1909

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1908

    October 13

    Plans for James F. Meehan's west-side Manida Street row go to the Department of Buildings

    In September 1908 the George F. Johnson's Sons Company sold 18 west-side lots on Manida Street to James F. Meehan, who headed the Meehan Building Company. The permit for the row, which includes No. 819, was filed on October 13, 1908, with Meehan as both developer and architect, and the houses were completed on July 28, 1909. A New York Times advertisement in May 1909 pictured houses on this side of the street.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1909

    No. 819 Manida Street retains its shield cartouche, conical roof and gold house numbers

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    Part of Meehan's 18-house west row, No. 819 shares a party wall with No. 821. A stone door frame topped by a wide lintel with a shield cartouche marks the entrance, which still has its metal-and-glass double door and gold address numbers. The rounded bay keeps its conical roof, and part of the bracketed cornice survives before a shingled gabled parapet.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1909

    Builder James F. Meehan, later Tenement House Commissioner, is building over 100 Hunts Point houses

    Meehan, who designed and built this house, had worked for the Henry Morgenthau Company before becoming president of his own Meehan Building Company and of the Manida Company. In 1909 he was building more than 100 houses in Hunts Point, the neighborhood where he also lived, in a since-demolished villa at Hunts Point Road and Lafayette Avenue. He served as Tenement House Commissioner under Mayor John Purroy Mitchel and died in 1945.

    “In 1909, Meehan was in the process of building more than 100 houses in Hunts Point, often serving as both architect and developer…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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