Home of the Daughters of Jacob

1201 Findlay Avenue | Concourse | built 1921

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1916

    Louis Abramson designs a wheel-shaped home with eight wings for elderly Orthodox Jews

    Architect Louis Abramson designed the building in 1916 as a residence for elderly Orthodox Jews, replacing the Daughters of Jacob's home at 301 East Broadway in Manhattan, which held only 200 people. Its eight wings, radiating from a central core of offices topped by a tower that was then the highest point in the Bronx, were meant for more than 1,000 elderly men and women. Plans also called for a 1,000-seat synagogue, a 600-seat dining room, a hospital, a library and a Victorian-style Turkish bath, and the four-story building was estimated to cost $300,000.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1938

    A fifth story adds operating rooms and X-ray and dental facilities to the home

    In 1938 a fifth floor was built on top of the home to give its hospital more room. The addition held operating rooms along with X-ray, cardiology, physical therapy and dental facilities, and it cost $180,000.

    “A fifth story added to the building in 1938 provided additional hospital space for operating rooms along with X-ray, cardiological, physiotherapy, and dental facilities…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1973

    Architect Louis Abramson, 84, helps modernize the home he designed decades earlier

    By 1973 new health codes meant the building no longer suited its original use. Abramson, then 84, joined the design team that updated it and linked it by pedestrian bridges to new buildings across Findlay and Teller Avenues. He told The New York Times that care for the elderly had shifted from a bed in a ward and meals toward privacy, dignity and chances to stay active.

    “Abramson, then 84 years old, was part of the design team which modernized the building, connecting it by pedestrian bridges to new buildings…”

    Source: Wikipedia

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