1050 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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- 1900
Builder Ernest Wenigmann buys the Clay Avenue land from the Morris family's heirs
Ernest Wenigmann, a local Bronx builder, acquired the land along Clay Avenue in 1900, buying some plots straight from Juliet M. Livingston, an heir of William H. Morris, and others through intermediaries. In 1901-02 he built 28 two-family houses on the block, the first construction in the Fleetwood area, all designed by Warren C. Dickerson.
“Wenigmann acquired the land on Clay Avenue and in the surrounding area in 1900. Some of this property was purchased directly from Morris's heir, Juliet M. Livingston…”
- 1901
No. 1050 is built as the taller half of a lopsided pair with No. 1052
Warren C. Dickerson designed No. 1050 and No. 1052 in 1901-02 as an asymmetrical pair: No. 1050 has a two-story-and-basement angled bay, its neighbor only a one-story bay. Faced in beige Roman brick, since painted here, No. 1050 is the only one of the two to keep its paired wood-and-glass doors and the leaded transom over the window above its entrance.
- 1905
A carpet salesman and a fireman share No. 1050 with their families
The 1905 state census recorded two households at No. 1050. Carpet salesman John E. Hubbard lived here with his wife, two sons, a daughter and a Danish servant, while fireman Thomas Ahearn shared the house with his daughter, his son and two of his sisters.
“In 1905, the residents of No. 1050 were carpet salesman John E. Hubbard, his wife, two sons, one daughter, and their Danish servant, and fireman Thomas Ahearn…”
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