1104 Jackson Avenue

Morrisania | built 1902

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.

1900
The Rogers estate is divided, opening this part of Jackson Avenue to rowhouse builders
Thomas Rogers, a Wall Street financier, built his home around 1872 on part of the old Eltona land near today's Morris High School. Around 1900 his estate was split up: the city took the largest part for the school, another portion became Jackson Avenue between 166th Street and Home Street, and the rest was cut into lots that several developers bought for brick rowhouses like No. 1104.
“Around 1900 the Rogers' estate was divided for sale.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1902
No. 1104 rises as part of a five-building row under one shared cornice
Warren C. Dickerson designed No. 1104 in 1902 for developer Thomas Quinn as part of a five-building group, made up of a corner building with stores below apartments and four two-family rowhouses, all filed under a single permit. A pressed-metal cornice of modillion blocks broken by large scrolled brackets ties the row together. No. 1104 has door lintels with console-bracket keystones and paired stoops that kept parts of their wrought-iron railings into the 1980s.
“The pressed metal cornice of modillion blocks punctuated by large scrolled brackets unites all five units…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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