1138 Jackson Avenue

Morrisania | built 1900

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1. 1900

   William Crockett builds this two-family house as one of four costing $6,500 each

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   Developer William Crockett hired Warren C. Dickerson to design Nos. 1138 to 1144 Jackson Avenue, four two-family houses estimated at $6,500 apiece. They were planned together with Archibald Hamilton's pair at Nos. 1134-1136, sharing the same doorway surrounds, stairs, railings and pressed-metal cornices.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1900

   The house mirrors its neighbor but swaps in an angled bay, and keeps its original stoop and doors

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   No. 1138 is close to a mirror image of No. 1136 next door, except that its window bay is angular instead of curved. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it in the early 1980s, its stairway and its double doors with plate-glass panels were still unaltered, unlike those of some neighbors. The report also noted an air conditioner set into the basement wall.

   “No. 1138 is almost the mirror image of the building described under No. 1136, although the window bay is angular rather than curved and the stairway and doors are unaltered.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1905

   Robbins Street, the house's address, is renamed Jackson Avenue

   The street in front of the house ran through Rowland Robbins' farm in the 1850s and became Robbins Street in the years following the Civil War, as one of East Morrisania's few streets. It was renamed Jackson Avenue in 1905, most likely for Washington and Rosetta Jackson, who owned land near what is now St. Mary's Park.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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