841 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

    James F. Meehan files plans for 841 Manida Street and its west-side neighbors on Manida Street

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    In September 1908 the Bronx builder James F. Meehan, head of the Meehan Building Company, bought 18 west-side lots on Manida Street from George F. Johnson's Sons. On October 13 he filed a single permit for 18 semi-detached two-family houses, among them 841 Manida Street, acting as his own architect. The whole west-side row was finished on July 28, 1909, and the houses were sold over the following year.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1909

    841 Manida Street rises with a stepped Flemish Revival parapet over its rounded bay

    Meehan gave 841 Manida Street, the mirror twin of No. 839, a brick front with a pedimented door frame on paneled pilasters and a festoon, stained-glass transoms upstairs, and a stepped Flemish Revival parapet above a ballflower-studded cornice. Later owners painted the facade, swapped the 12-over-one wood windows and stoop, cut away the upper cornice and took down the stone tablet that once filled the parapet panel.

    “The Flemish Revival-style parapet retains its stone coping and decorative keystone, as well as the recessed rectangular panel that historically contained a decorative stone tablet.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1909

    May

    A New York Times ad pitches the west-side Manida Street houses to investors

    In May 1909 a New York Times advertisement offered the new two-family houses on Manida Street, illustrated with a drawing of the west-side row. It promised buyers a profitable investment, called the street one of the Bronx's prettiest and easiest to reach, and claimed land values had doubled since the builders bought the lots. Sellers later stressed the nearby American Bank Note Company printing plant, then still being built.

    “An advertisement for the houses in the Manida Street Historic District was published in the New York Times in May 1909 and included an illustration of houses on the west side…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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