1044 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
No. 1044 hides two apartments behind a single front door
Like each of Wenigmann's Clay Avenue houses of 1901-02, No. 1044 looks like a one-family home but was designed for two. Only inside the vestibule do two apartment doors appear: one unit takes the raised basement and first story, the other the two floors above. The plans gave every unit two parlors, front and back, plus a kitchen, dining room, bathroom, pair of bedrooms and a room for a servant.
“It is only upon entering the vestibule, with its two apartment doors, that one becomes aware that this is a two-family house.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1904
Wine merchant Carl Sotscheck buys No. 1044 and rents to a Bell Telephone superintendent
Carl Sotscheck, who ran a wine business, bought No. 1044 in 1904 and lived there with his wife, a daughter and two sons. His tenant in the second apartment was Thomas J. Cushing, who worked as a Bell Telephone superintendent and shared the unit with his wife and a lodger.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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