851 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.

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1908
October 13
James F. Meehan files plans for the west-side row that includes this house
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In September 1908 George F. Johnson sold builder James F. Meehan 18 lots along the street's west side, and the press reported he would start on two-family houses right away. Meehan, acting as both developer and architect, filed plans on October 13, 1908, for a west-side row of 18 semi-detached houses. The west-side row was finished on July 28, 1909.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Meehan designs No. 851 as half of a pair with a cartouche over the door
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No. 851 is a two-story Renaissance Revival two-family house, one of the 18 semi-detached houses from 819 to 861 Manida Street that Meehan designed and developed in 1908-09. It shares a party wall with No. 849. Its low stoop leads to a stone door frame topped by a broad molded lintel bearing a shield cartouche, and its rounded bay projects to the north.
“…surmounted by a wide rectangular molded lintel with a shield cartouche. The first story of the rounded, projecting northern bay…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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