108 East 179th Street
Mount Hope | built 1906
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1906
Jacob's second campaign introduces the three-story duplex house, starting with No. 108
On August 21, 1906, two months after his first group, builder August Jacob began a second campaign: Nos. 1988-1998 Morris Avenue and No. 108 East 179th Street, all designed by John Hauser. This was the first group on the block to rise a full three stories. Like the earlier houses they were two-family dwellings, with alternating red and buff brick.
- 1919
Joseph C. Noethen is recorded as the first owner of No. 108
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's appendix of first owners lists Joseph C. Noethen as the first buyer of No. 108 East 179th Street, with a purchase date of June 27, 1919. The appendix, arranged by block and tax lot, places the house on lot 96 of block 2807, the last entry on the east side of the development.
- 1986
No. 108's two-sided bay mirrors No. 60 to frame the north end of Jacob's development
No. 108 is a single three-story red-brick house on a low basement with an arched entrance and a projecting two-faced bay. Hauser designed it and No. 60 as near reflections of each other, a symmetrical close to the block's north end. When the district was designated in 1986, its lower floors were sealed with cinder block and only one original stoop railing survived.
“Its lower floors are sealed with cinder block at present…”
Nearby
- 1996 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1998 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1994 Morris Avenue3 entries
- 1992 Morris Avenue3 entries
- 1990 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1988 Morris Avenue3 entries