1120 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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1901
Lavelle gives this two-family house an angled bay under a hipped-roof turret
No. 1120 was built in 1901 as part of John H. Lavelle's row of four two-family houses for developer Catherine A. Lavelle. While Nos. 1116 and 1118 have curved bays with conical roofs, this house and No. 1122 have angled bays crowned by hipped roofs above a false mansard. The Landmarks Preservation Commission compared the turreted designs to Warren C. Dickerson's houses in the Longwood Historic District.
“Nos. 1120 and 1122 have angled bays with hipped roofs while Nos. 1116-1118 have the usu a l curved bay but with a conical roof.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
Robbins Street, this house's street, is renamed Jackson Avenue, probably for landowners Washington and Rosetta Jackson
In the 1850s this land was part of Rowland Robbins' farm, and soon after the Civil War the street was called Robbins Street, then among the handful of streets in East Morrisania. It became Jackson Avenue in 1905. The Landmarks Preservation Commission suggests the name probably honors Washington and Rosetta Jackson, who owned land near St. Mary's Park.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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