1968 Morris Avenue
Mount Hope | built 1909
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1909
August Jacob starts No. 1968, the final house he builds on the block
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No. 1968 was part of August Jacob's fifth and last building campaign on Morris Avenue, together with the two corner tenements on Tremont Avenue; all three sets of plans were approved on January 27, 1909. Work on the house began on April 1, 1909, four months ahead of the tenements, and it was completed on January 31, 1910.
“No. 1968 was begun on April 1, while the tenements were begun four months later, on August 12. No. 1968 was finished on January 31, 1910…”
- 1909
Carved faces flank the doorway of the two-family house, perhaps the builder and his wife
Built as a two-family house of buff brick with limestone trim, No. 1968 is 37 feet high and has a curved bow rising all three stories. The arched entrance rests on corbels carved as two faces, one bearded and moustached in the imperial style, the other softer and more feminine. The 1986 designation report wonders whether they portray August and Philipina C. Jacob.
“(Could these visages be those of August and Philipina C. Jacob?)…”
- 1912
Wenzel C. Urban becomes the first owner of No. 1968 Morris Avenue
According to the appendix of first owners in the Morris Avenue Historic District report, Wenzel C. Urban bought No. 1968 on January 13, 1912. That was nearly two years after the house was completed on January 31, 1910. Most houses in the neighboring row had found their first buyers in 1907 and 1908.
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- 1974 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1976 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1978 Morris Avenue2 entries