Mott Haven Historic District

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.