1041 Clay Avenue
Concourse Village | built 1902
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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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- 1897
Fleetwood Park, the trotting track on this ground, runs its final race
Before Clay Avenue was cut through, this land was part of Fleetwood Park, a trotting track run from 1881 by the Driving Club of New York, whose members included William K. Vanderbilt and William Rockefeller. The park had a curving covered grandstand and a Second Empire clubhouse. Its last race was held on October 8, 1897, and the track closed for good on January 1, 1898.
“The final race at Fleetwood Park took place on October 8, 1897, and the park was officially closed on January 1, 1898.”
- 1901
Ernest Wenigmann builds No. 1041, a stone-bayed single house anchoring the west side
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Builder Ernest Wenigmann erected No. 1041 in 1901-02 as the single house at the end of the west blockfront, designed by Warren C. Dickerson in a mix of Romanesque Revival and neo-Renaissance styles. Rough rock-faced stone covers nearly all of its angled one-story bay, the upper windows have Gothic drip lintels, and the mansard is pierced by a dormer whose two windows are divided by a wooden Ionic column.
- 1902
Hungarian-born teacher Leopold Neugroschl buys No. 1041 and rents out the second apartment
Leopold Neugroschl, a teacher born in Hungary, bought No. 1041 in 1902. The 1905 state census found him living there with his four children and a Hungarian servant, while the second apartment was occupied by Harry Holle, an iron worker, and his wife, who were tenants.
“…this was the home of Hungarian-born teacher Leopold Neugroschl, his four children, and a Hungarian servant…”
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