1116 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 Thomas Rogers estate is divided, making way for Morris High School, this block of Jackson Avenue and rowhouse lots
The land here was known in the mid-1800s as Eltona, after Robert H. Elton, who bought it from Gouverneur Morris. Wall Street financier Thomas Rogers built his own home on part of it around 1872. Around 1900 the Rogers estate was divided: the largest share went to the city for Morris High School, another became Jackson Avenue between 166th Street and Home Street, and the rest was cut into lots for brick rowhouses.
“Around 1900 the Rogers' estate was divided for sale. The lar gest por-t ion went t o t he ci t y for Morris High School…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1901
Catherine A. Lavelle develops a turreted two-family rowhouse designed by her son John H. Lavelle
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No. 1116 belongs to a row of four two-family brick houses, Nos. 1116 to 1122, that John H. Lavelle designed in 1901, his earliest work on this block. His mother, Catherine A. Lavelle, was the owner and developer. This house and No. 1118 have the curved bay of the group's design topped by a conical roof over a false mansard, with stair railings of twisted posts and wrought-iron scrolls.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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