116-09 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
No. 116-09 shares its rear garage with No. 116-07
Built in 1931 to Andrew Marjey's design, No. 116-09 is one of the row's paired houses, with a shared arched vestibule of brick and stucco, and it shares a separate rear garage with No. 116-07. It retains its eight-sash wood window with colored diamond panes, textured stucco upper story with random brick, slate vestibule roof and parapet, and a chimney shared with No. 116-11 on its other side.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1933
November
Wolosoff Brothers sell most of their land, leaving No. 116-09's street the only part of St. Albans Lawns built
In November 1933 Wolosoff Brothers sold most of the land they had bought two years earlier to another company, Kiesel Estates, and gave up on further building at St. Albans Lawns. The 50 houses on 227th Street, No. 116-09 among them, were the only part ever completed; the lots behind them on 226th and 228th Streets were developed by other builders later in the decade.
“In November of 1933, the Wolosoffs sold off the vast majority of the property acquired from Garlind Realty Syndicate two years earlier…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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