116-01 227th Street

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

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1931
Andrew Marjey sets 116-01 227th Street's front door on 116th Avenue
Designed by Hungarian-born architect Andrew A. Marjey for Wolosoff Brothers' St. Albans Lawns Inc. in 1931, this and 116-02 across the street are the only two of the district's 50 houses whose main entrances face 116th Avenue. Its north front has a round-arched door under a bracketed wooden hood, framed by timbers suggesting interlocking gables. The 227th Street side has a three-sided oriel and a gable faced in irregular-edged clapboards. The brick entrance steps and wood front door are historic.
“No. 116-01 and 116-02 227th Street are the only two houses with their main entrance facades facing 116th Avenue rather than 227th Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
Dentist Charles Fabricant and teacher Ethel Fabricant own the corner house
In the street's early years, around the 1940 census, this corner house belonged to Charles Fabricant, a Russian-born dentist, and his wife Ethel, a New York-born teacher. Ethel's mother Fannie, an Austrian immigrant, shared the house with the couple and their daughter, then three. A live-in servant from Waynesboro, Georgia, Ms. Bessent, was at the time the district's only African American resident.
“The corner house at 116-01 227th Street was owned by Charles and Ethel Fabricant, a dentist and teacher.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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