1055 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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1902
No. 1055 gets a Flemish-style gable topped with iron urns
Warren C. Dickerson designed No. 1055 and its twin, No. 1057, in red brick with light-brown sandstone trim and angled bays of rock-faced stone at the lower floors. Each house ends in a stepped, curving gable inspired by Flemish models above a galvanized-iron cornice. By 1994 the brick here had been painted, but the gable still carried its original galvanized-iron urns.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
Clothing cutter Frederick Krauth lives at No. 1055
In the 1905 census, No. 1055 Clay Avenue was home to Frederick Krauth, who worked as a clothing cutter, along with his wife, his son and a servant from Hungary. The house's second apartment was leased to John Elstner, a German immigrant, and his daughter. Most early residents of the block appear to have been middle-class, with renters generally somewhat less well off than owners.
“In 1905, No. 1055 was home to Frederick Krauth, a clothing cutter, his wife, son, and a Hungarian servant.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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