1105 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
Thomas Quinn has 1105 Forest Avenue built as part of a row of nine two-family houses
Developer Thomas Quinn completed No. 1105 Forest Avenue in 1903, one of nine two-family houses numbered 1097 through 1113 that Warren C. Dickerson designed for him. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report gives the estimated cost as $8,000 per house. Each stands three stories over a basement, with facades that alternate as mirror images along the block.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1903
Dickerson gives 1105 Forest Avenue a curved two-story bay and a doorway framed by Ionic columns
Warren C. Dickerson's design for No. 1105 centers on a curved window bay rising two stories, topped by a third-floor balcony with scrolled wrought-iron panels; a single French casement window opens at the first floor. Doorway frames alternate along the row, and this house got Ionic columns. In 1982 the report found the first-floor windows' diamond-patterned wooden transoms over dentiled sills surviving on only three houses in the row: Nos. 1101, 1105 and 1107.
“The first story windows have diamond-patterned wood transom sash and dentiled transom sills (surviving at Nos. 1101, HOS, and 1107).”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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