{"nrhp_refnum":"80002586","name":"Mott Haven Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"An irregular pattern along Alexander Ave. and E. 140th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.811459722500075,"lon":-73.92707746214401,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of about ten blocks in the South Bronx, New York City, centered on Alexander Avenue and bounded roughly by Third Avenue, Brook Avenue, East 137th Street and East 142nd Street. It contains row houses, churches, a library, a police station and other buildings dating from the 1860s to the 1920s.","why_significant":"The district preserves a cohesive group of late nineteenth and early twentieth century urban buildings, mostly designed as unified rows of houses. Despite a wide range of styles, common scale, materials and craftsmanship give it unity. The surrounding area has been redeveloped with high-rise housing, but these blocks retain their original character.","narrative":"Mott Haven Historic District covers roughly ten blocks of the South Bronx, centered on Alexander Avenue. Row houses of three to five stories make up most of the district, with shops and services along East 138th Street and Third Avenue. High-rise housing projects now tower around the older blocks. Construction dates run from the early 1860s to the 1920s, though most buildings went up in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Styles include Renaissance Revival, neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival and Victorian Gothic, yet scale, materials and craftsmanship give the area a consistent look. Architects generally designed whole blocks of row houses as units, producing uniform cornice lines and ironwork. Notable buildings include St. Jerome's Roman Catholic Church of 1898, the Tercera Iglesia Bautista of 1900-1902, the Mott Haven branch library of 1905, the 40th Precinct police station of 1922-24, two Romanesque Revival warehouses of 1912-13, and a former theatre building of 1896 on Third Avenue.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Dehli & Howard (St. Jerome's Church); Carl A. Millner (apartment houses); Thomas E. O'Brien (police station); Ward & Davis and Frank F. Ward (Baptist church and parsonage); Babb, Cook & Willard (library); Seifert-Webb Associates (warehouses); J.B. McElfatrick & Son (theatre building)","architectural_style":"Mixed late 19th and early 20th century styles including Renaissance Revival, Greek Revival, neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival and Victorian Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"The former Theatre Metropolis building at 2640-52 Third Avenue is described as presently vacant; the rest of the district is described as primarily residential, with shops on East 138th Street and Third Avenue.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.929377-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002586.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002586/7866d594a5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002586/7866d594a5-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"Jim.henderson, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:40_Pct_Alexander_Av_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316495","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott_Haven_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6918624"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/mott-haven-historic-district-80002586/"}