1123 Forest Avenue

Morrisania | built 1902

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

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1902
Investor William Crockett commissions six two-family houses, starting with No. 1123
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No. 1123 is the first of six two-family houses, Nos. 1123 to 1133, that date from 1902. Warren C. Dickerson designed the row for the investor William Crockett at an estimated cost of $8,000 for each house. A year later Crockett joined Archibald Hamilton to build four more houses on the block, Nos. 1115-1121.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1902
Paired round-arch windows crown the curved bay of No. 1123
Dickerson gave Nos. 1123 and 1125 the same design as the later houses at 1115-1117, with one change: above the third-floor balcony, two round-arch windows take the place of the tripartite square window used there. The same pattern repeats at the other end of the row, at Nos. 1131 and 1133.
“…with the substitution of paired round-arch windows above the balcony for the tripartite square window…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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