1119 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
Crockett and Hamilton build four two-family houses on Forest Avenue for about $8,000 apiece
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This house is one of four two-family homes, Nos. 1115 to 1121, finished in 1903 for the developers William Crockett and Archibald Hamilton. Warren C. Dickerson drew the plans, and each building was estimated to cost $8,000.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1903
Angled pressed-metal bays and Ionic columns set No. 1119 apart from Nos. 1115-1117
Nos. 1119 and 1121 follow the plan of their neighbors at 1115-1117 but add far richer angled window bays of pressed metal, trimmed with paneled spandrels, pilasters and wreath friezes. Stone balustrades front the third-floor balconies, Ionic columns divide the third-story windows, and the round-arched entrances are reached by stoops with paneled railings and scrolled wrought-iron newels.
“Nos. 1119-1121, are very similar to Nos. 1115-1117; however, the far more elaborate angled window bays make them distinctive…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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