847 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
James F. Meehan files plans for 847 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 847 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.
- 1909
847 Manida Street keeps the stained-glass transoms over its first-floor windows
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Paired with No. 843, 847 Manida Street has a Corinthian-capped stone door frame, a rounded northern bay with limestone sill and lintel bands, and a steep side-gabled parapet still clad in standing-seam metal behind its bracketed cornice. It retains stained-glass transoms on the first floor. The brick has been resurfaced, the cornice balustrade removed, and a second story added to the rear extension.
“Historic stained-glass window transoms are retained on the first story and transom window openings are retained on the second story.”
- 1930
Max Raderman, a Russian-born musician, lives at 847 Manida Street
The 1930 federal census lists Max Raderman, a musician from Russia, at 847 Manida Street. His was one of the few households on the block with a live-in housekeeper at the time.
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