849 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 849 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 849 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
849 Manida Street gets arched upper windows and a shield cartouche over its door
No. 849 Manida Street, which shares a party wall with No. 851, has a stone door frame topped by a lintel with a shield cartouche, arched second-story windows with keystones and small iron railings, and a stone tablet of acanthus leaves on its rounded bay. A shingled gabled parapet and conical roof sit behind the cornice, with ball finials on the walls. The brick has been resurfaced and the six-over-one windows replaced.
“…a prominent stone door enframement surmounted by a wide rectangular molded lintel with a shield cartouche…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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