1048 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. 1048 keeps its original paired wood-and-glass doors
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Warren C. Dickerson designed No. 1048 and its partner No. 1046, built in 1901-02 for Ernest Wenigmann, with segmental-arched entrances set in rough light-brown sandstone and capped by console keystones. No. 1048 still has its paired wood-and-glass doors, which have been replaced next door, and its stoop keeps the original wrought-iron railings. Rounded three-story bays rise beside the entrances to loggias with Ionic columns.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
Widow Josephine Greve lives at No. 1048 with her milliner and stenographer daughters
In 1905 No. 1048 was the home of Josephine Greve, a widow, who lived with her two daughters, one a milliner and the other a stenographer, and her mother-in-law. The census recorded no one living in the house's second apartment.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1957
No. 1048 is converted into a three-family house
Originally built to hold two households, No. 1048 was turned into a three-family residence in 1957-58, according to surviving Department of Buildings records. Its neighbor and twin, No. 1046, had already been cut up into an apartment and ten furnished rooms in 1951, part of a wave of conversions on Clay Avenue in the 1950s and 1960s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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