1118 Jackson Avenue

Morrisania | built 1901

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

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1900
Builder-architect John H. Lavelle works with his mother on rowhouses near his own office
John H. Lavelle was a builder-architect who, apparently teaming with his mother, the developer Catherine A. Lavelle, built houses in several parts of the city. Little is recorded about his career. City directories list him between 1900 and 1907 with an office at 722 Jackson Avenue, not far from the neighborhood where his houses were going up.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1901
John H. Lavelle designs a conical-roofed rowhouse that stands sealed and stripped by 1982
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No. 1118 is one of four two-family rowhouses at Nos. 1116 to 1122 Jackson Avenue built in 1901 to designs by John H. Lavelle, with Catherine A. Lavelle, his mother, as developer. Like its twin at No. 1116, it has a curved front bay capped by a conical roof. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the block for its 1982 report, the house had been sealed and had lost its doors and window sash.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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