820 Manida Street

Hunts Point | built 1909

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

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1909
No. 820 Manida Street keeps its bracketed cornice and conical bay roof
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Daube & Kreymborg designed this two-family house for James F. Meehan in 1908-1909 as the mirror twin of No. 818. It still carries a foliate bracketed galvanized-iron cornice and a hipped parapet whose cone-shaped roof crowns the rounded bay, along with its historic glass-and-metal double door. The finial on the bay roof is gone, and the wood windows have been replaced.
“A foliate bracketed cornice spans across the façade and a hipped parapet with a conical roof over the bay caps the building.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Manida Street's houses are built for two families, one on each floor
Each house on the block, No. 820 included, was planned as two flats, with a separate household on each of its two floors. The houses measure 20 by 55 feet and have a one-story rear extension whose roof the upstairs household could use. Old photographs show a slightly raised planting bed beside each stoop.
“The semi-detached houses were designed for two families – one family on the first floor and another on the second floor.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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