1970 Morris Avenue

Mount Hope | built 1907

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.

1907
Bellflower corbels frame the arched door of No. 1970, first of a nine-house row
No. 1970 opens a row of nine three-story houses, Nos. 1970 to 1986, built in the third of the Jacobs' campaigns on the block. Like the corner tenements on Tremont Avenue, it is faced with dark honey-colored brick. Its arched entrance has keyed blocks and limestone cresting, and the raised molding rests on corbels carved as stylized upward-facing bellflowers. The report reads the row's mix of brick colors and entrance types as architect John Hauser's way of avoiding monotony.
“Arched entrances with the same keyed blocks and limestone cresting as No. 1968 are at Nos. 1970, 1976, 1978, 1984, and 1986…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
October 16
Davetta Shepherd buys No. 1970 from the Jacobs
The list of first owners compiled for the Morris Avenue Historic District names Davetta Shepherd as the first buyer of No. 1970, on October 16, 1910. Although the house went up in 1907, it sold more than two years after the other houses from No. 1972 to No. 1984, which all found buyers in the spring of 1908.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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