843 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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1908
October 13
James F. Meehan files plans for 843 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 843 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
1909
843 Manida Street gets a door frame with stylized Corinthian capitals
No. 843 Manida Street shares its party wall and cornice with No. 847. A low stoop between stone cheek walls leads to an entrance framed by pilasters with stylized Corinthian capitals under a wide molded lintel. Its rounded southern bay carries continuous limestone lintel and sill bands on the first floor, and a steep side-gabled parapet rises behind a cornice trimmed with brackets and dentils.
“…a prominent stone door enframement consisting of pilasters surmounted by stylized Corinthian capitals and a wide rectangular molded lintel…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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