1106 Jackson Avenue

Morrisania | built 1902

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

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1900
Mother-and-son team Catherine and John H. Lavelle build houses in several parts of the city
John H. Lavelle, the architect of No. 1106, worked as a builder-architect, apparently with his mother Catherine A. Lavelle as developer, and the pair built houses in several parts of New York. City directories from 1900 to 1907 place his practice at 722 Jackson Avenue, near the block where this house went up.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1902
John H. Lavelle designs No. 1106 for his mother, the most distinctive house in his row
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Builder-architect John H. Lavelle designed Nos. 1106-1114 in 1902 for his mother, Catherine A. Lavelle, the developer, at roughly $17,500 per two-family house. The Landmarks Preservation Commission singled out No. 1106 as the most distinctive of the five: it has a high basement, a dog-leg stoop, diamond-patterned colored glass in its small third-floor windows, and a limestone door lintel in a pseudo-Gothic manner with a pediment between split spindles.
“No. 1106 presents the most distinctive facade in this group of designs by Lavelle.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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