1097 Forest Avenue

Morrisania | built 1903

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1903
A Warren C. Dickerson two-family house for Thomas Quinn is completed at the head of a row of nine
This three-story house with basement is the first of nine nearly identical two-family houses Warren C. Dickerson finished in 1903 for Thomas Quinn, each estimated at $8,000. The facades alternate as mirror images, with two-story curved bays, wrought-iron balcony panels and paired stoops. At No. 1097 the doorway is framed by Ionic columns, while some neighbors use paneled pilasters instead.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1982
The house stands sealed, missing some window sash and original doors
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed Forest Avenue for the 1982 historic district, No. 1097 was one of five houses in Thomas Quinn's row of nine that had been sealed up, along with Nos. 1099, 1103, 1109 and 1111. The commission noted that it had lost some of its window sash and its original doors.
“Nos. 1097, 1099, 1103, 1109 and 1111 are presently sealed and have suffered the loss, in part, of window sash and original doors.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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