1040 Clay Avenue

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1901
Warren C. Dickerson designs No. 1040 as the end house of Ernest Wenigmann's row
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Builder Ernest Wenigmann put up No. 1040 in 1901-02 to plans by architect Warren C. Dickerson. The three-story single house is faced in beige Roman brick with limestone trim and has a rounded two-story bay and a tower-like entrance bay that rises above the mansard, its top story decorated with galvanized-iron wreaths. It is an approximate mirror image of No. 1066 Clay Avenue.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1903
Russian-born Urry Goodman buys No. 1040 and shares it with his real estate brothers
In 1903 Russian-born Urry Goodman bought No. 1040 and lived there with his wife. The other apartment held Aaron Goodman, probably Urry's brother, with his wife, two more brothers, one brother's wife and four children. Every one of the Goodman brothers worked in real estate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1958
No. 1040 is converted from a two-family house into six units
Building records show that No. 1040 was divided into six units in 1958. It was part of a wider pattern on Clay Avenue, where owners began splitting the two-family houses into more apartments in the early 1940s, with many conversions in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite these interior changes, the facades on the block saw little alteration beyond new windows and paint.
“Records that are extant record that No. 1040 was converted into six units in 1958…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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