101 East Tremont Avenue
Mount Hope | built 1909
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1909
August Jacob's construction company begins a five-story tenement at Tremont and Morris
Plans for this corner tenement, its twin across Morris Avenue and the house at No. 1968 were all approved on January 27, 1909, in the last of August Jacob's five building campaigns on the block. Work on the two tenements started on August 12, 1909, four months after the house. They were sold about two months after No. 1968 was completed on January 31, 1910.
“The plans for these three were all approved on January 27, 1909. However, No. 1968 was begun on April 1, while the tenements were begun four months later, on August 12.”
- 1909
John Hauser designs the eleven-family tenement in the free classical style
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Designed by John Hauser for eleven families, the five-story building rises 90 feet from the curb, with brick walls, limestone trim, a galvanized iron cornice and ornamental wrought-iron fire escapes. Its ground story alternates bands of limestone and brick to suggest rustication, and raised quoining framed in the brickwork outlines the central seven bays of the Tremont Avenue front.
- 1910
Charles C. Sievers buys both new Tremont Avenue tenements on the same day
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's list of first owners shows Charles C. Sievers taking title to No. 101 East Tremont Avenue, also known as 1966 Morris Avenue, on April 4, 1910. The same buyer acquired the matching tenement at No. 65 East Tremont, also known as 1969 Morris Avenue, on the opposite corner that very day. Both tenements were built by the Jacobs, the developers of the whole block.
- 1939
A shoe-shaped sign goes up for a shoe repair and bicycle rental shop
In 1939 a projecting swing sign in the form of a shoe was hung on the tenement to advertise a business that repaired shoes and rented bicycles. The change was made under Alteration Permit 164/1939.
“In 1939 a projecting swing sign in the shape of a shoe — for a shoe repair and bicycle rental shop — was appended to the building…”
- 1941
Two dentists' offices open on the tenement's first floor
Under Alteration Permit 1091/1941, two dentists' offices were fitted into the ground floor of No. 101 East Tremont Avenue. To give one of them its own entrance from Tremont Avenue, a street door was cut in place of the third window right of the main door.
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- 1968 Morris Avenue3 entries
- 1970 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1972 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1974 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1976 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1971 Morris Avenue2 entries