1973 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.

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1907
Two moustached faces hold up the arched entrance of No. 1973
No. 1973 has an arched entrance and limestone window lintels with moldings. The raised molding around its door rests on corbels carved as heads, and here both faces wear moustaches, while next door at No. 1975 both are female and further up the row they wear turbans. In 1986 the house still had its original wood window sash.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
August Jacob builds No. 1973 in his fourth Morris Avenue building campaign
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No. 1973 belongs to a row of nine houses, Nos. 1971 through 1987, that the Jacobs put up on the west side of Morris Avenue around the middle of 1907 in the fourth of their five building campaigns on the block. Every house in this group is three stories tall and faced in the same buff brick, with a stoop and areaway railing pattern unlike the other rows. The first house of the group to find a buyer was sold on September 30, 1908.
“Nos. 1971 through 1987, the row of nine houses on the west side of Morris (plate 6), were constructed in a fourth campaign about mid-1907…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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