839 Manida Street
Hunts Point | built 1909
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1908
Meehan files plans for No. 839 and its row, acting as his own architect
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On October 13, 1908, James F. Meehan filed a new-building permit with the Department of Buildings for No. 839 and 17 other paired houses along the street's west side. He served as both developer and architect. By that fall, 42 two-family houses were under construction on the block, counting the row going up across the street.
- 1909
No. 839 wears a Flemish Revival stepped parapet above its rounded bay
No. 839 and No. 841 share a party wall and a cornice. A stepped Flemish Revival parapet with stone coping and a keystone rises above No. 839's rounded bay, set in front of a steep side-gabled parapet. Its doorway is framed by paneled pilasters and scrolled brackets under a pedimented lintel carved with a festoon. The parapet's decorative stone tablet is now missing, and the top half of the cornice has been removed.
- 2010
A New York Times article links the Flemish gables on No. 839's block to the Bronx's German population
No. 839 is one of six west-side houses, along with Nos. 823, 827, 841, 853 and 857, crowned by a tall Flemish Revival stepped parapet. A 2010 New York Times article remarked on the Flemish influence and suggested the style would have felt familiar to the largely German population of the Bronx when the houses were built. The commission notes that New York row houses used the Flemish Revival style less often than other revival styles.
“A New York Times article from 2010 noted the Flemish influence on this block…”
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