1134 Jackson Avenue

Morrisania | built 1900

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1900
Archibald Hamilton has this house built alongside William Crockett's matching row
No. 1134 and its neighbor No. 1136 were put up for Archibald Hamilton, while the four houses at Nos. 1138-1144 were developed by William Crockett. The two men were evidently associates: in 1903 they went into partnership as developers of Nos. 1115-1121 Forest Avenue. That tie, the Landmarks Preservation Commission suggests, explains why Hamilton's pair shares its cornices, door hoods and carved-head corbels with Crockett's houses.
“Nos. 1134-1136 were built for Archibald Hamilton ... joining in partnership as developers at Nos. 1115-1121 Forest Avenue in 1903.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
The house gets a flattened curved bay with leaded transoms and a rounded attic gable
The front of No. 1134 is marked by a shallow, flattened curved bay, with leaded transom lights over each of its windows, and a curved gable at the attic. Its pressed-metal cornice has console brackets, and the limestone door hood sits on corbels carved as heads. By 1982 the entrance and part of the cornice had been altered, and a dormer like those on the other houses may once have topped the roof.
“No. 1134's most distinctive element is its flattened curved bay with leaded transom lights above each window. The attic gable is curved.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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