1140 Jackson Avenue

Morrisania | built 1900

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

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1900
Developer William Crockett puts up the house as part of a group designed with Hamilton's pair
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No. 1140 is one of four two-family houses, Nos. 1138 to 1144, that Warren C. Dickerson designed for the developer William Crockett, at an estimated $6,500 each. Crockett's houses were conceived together with the two built for his associate Archibald Hamilton at Nos. 1134-1136, so all six share cornices with console brackets, limestone door hoods and matching stoops and railings.
“Obviously designed in conjunction with Nos. 1134-1136, these buildings share numerous design traits such as doorway surrounds, stairways, railings and pressed metal cornices.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
The house pairs with No. 1142 but takes an angled bay and rusticated piers
Nos. 1140 and 1142 were designed as near mirror images. No. 1140 is set apart by its angled bay, its rusticated piers, and transom lights that appear only over the first-story windows. The Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded in 1982 that the lower flight of its entrance steps and railings, below the landing, had been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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