1063 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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1905
Widow Magdalena Messerschmidt buys No. 1063
Magdalena Messerschmidt, listed in the city directory as a widow living here, bought this house in 1905, though that year's census found only French-born Martin Messerschmidt and his daughter in residence. The 1910 census shows Magdalena, born in Germany, sharing the house with her two daughters, a son-in-law, a nephew and a servant from Germany. The other unit was let in 1905 to William Leitz, a German-born engineer, and his wife.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1961
No. 1063 is divided into five apartments
City building records show No. 1063 converted into five apartments in 1961. The landmarks report says the subdividing of Clay Avenue's two-family houses began in the early 1940s, with many converted in the 1950s and 1960s, while their exteriors changed little.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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