1121 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
Warren C. Dickerson designs No. 1121 as the last of a four-house row for William Crockett and Archibald Hamilton
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No. 1121 closes the group of four two-family houses that Warren C. Dickerson designed for William Crockett and Archibald Hamilton, completed in 1903 at an estimated $8,000 each. It shares its design with No. 1119, with an angled pressed-metal bay, a balustraded third-floor balcony and Ionic-columned windows above it.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1982
The Landmarks Commission finds No. 1121 sealed and stripped of its bay ornament
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Morris High School Historic District in 1982, No. 1121 stood sealed up. The commission reported that the house had been badly damaged by the loss of the pressed-metal trim and the balustrade from its oriel, the projecting window bay it shares in design with No. 1119.
“No. 1121 is presently sealed and has suffered greatly from the loss of the pressed metal and balustrade elements from the oriel…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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