1115 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
Developers William Crockett and Archibald Hamilton build 1115 Forest Avenue as a two-family house
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No. 1115 Forest Avenue was completed in 1903 as one of four two-family houses, Nos. 1115 through 1121, designed by Warren C. Dickerson for the developers William Crockett and Archibald Hamilton. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report puts the estimated cost at $8,000 for each house. Dickerson had already designed the six two-family houses at Nos. 1123 through 1133 for Crockett, which date from 1902.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1903
Dickerson pairs 1115 Forest Avenue with its neighbor and gives it stepped wrought-iron stair railings
Nos. 1115 and 1117 were designed as a matched pair of brick houses. Their curved two-story bays are plainer than most on the block, ending in solid brick balustrades at the third-floor balconies, but the stepped wrought-iron railings on the stoops are especially ornate. Above the bay sits a three-part square window with engaged columns, and the square doorway is edged in limestone quoins with carved wreaths at its corners.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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