1099 Forest Avenue

Morrisania | built 1903

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1903

    Thomas Quinn builds a Dickerson-designed two-family house with a pilaster-framed doorway

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    Developer Thomas Quinn put up this house in 1903 as part of a row of nine designed by Warren C. Dickerson, at an estimated $8,000 apiece. Like its neighbors it has a curved window bay rising two stories, a third-floor balcony with scrolled iron panels, and a limestone band tying the door lintels together. No. 1099 sets its doorway between paneled Ionic pilasters, while No. 1097 next door uses Ionic columns.

    “…paneled Ionic pilasters (Nos. 1099, 1101, 1107, and 1109) to frame the doorways…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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