858 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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1909
May
An advertisement in The New York Times offers the new Manida Street houses
In May 1909 an advertisement in The New York Times offered the block's new two-family houses as an investment, calling the location one of the prettiest and most accessible in the Bronx. It claimed the builders could not reproduce the houses for the same price because land values had doubled since they bought the ground. As the houses sold over the next year, their nearness to the American Bank Note Company plant, then still under construction, was used as a selling point.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
No. 858 is built with a side-gabled parapet shared with No. 860
No. 858 is one of 24 semi-detached houses at 814 to 870 Manida Street that Daube & Kreymborg designed in 1908-09 for James F. Meehan's Manida Development Company. It shares a party wall, a cornice on foliate brackets and a steep side-gabled parapet with No. 860. Its decorative balustrade is gone, and its original wood sash windows have been replaced.
“858 and 860 Manida Street share a foliate bracketed cornice that spans across their facades and a steeply pitched side-gabled parapet…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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