1043 Clay Avenue

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1901
Warren C. Dickerson gives No. 1043 a rounded bay and a gable crowned by a finial
No. 1043 and its twin, No. 1045, were built in 1901-02 for Ernest Wenigmann to designs by Warren C. Dickerson. Each house has a rounded two-story bay banded in rock-faced stone, a single wood-and-glass door under a bracketed cornice, and a brick gable with a finial rising from the mansard. Both facades have since been painted, but historic wrought-iron areaway railings with cast-iron newels remain.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
The 1905 census lists no residents at No. 1043, three years after it was finished
Although almost every house on the block was occupied by the time of the 1905 New York State census, no residents were recorded at No. 1043 or its twin, No. 1045. Both houses had been completed three years earlier, under the same 1901 building permit as Nos. 1047 and 1049.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1942
No. 1043 becomes a three-family house, one of the first conversions on Clay Avenue
In 1942 No. 1043 was converted from two apartments into three. It is among the earliest documented changes on Clay Avenue, where the splitting of two-family houses appears to have started in the early 1940s; a year earlier, in 1941, No. 1057 had been made over into twelve furnished rooms plus one apartment. More conversions followed through the 1950s and 1960s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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