1976 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
August Jacob builds a buff-brick bowed house to John Hauser's design
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No. 1976 belongs to the nine three-story houses the developer August Jacob put up on the east side of Morris Avenue in his third building campaign, all designed by John Hauser. To vary the long row, Hauser alternated brick colors and doorways; this one is faced in buff brick and has an arched entrance with keyed blocks and corbels carved as upturned bellflowers. The Landmarks report noted that its limestone cresting over the arch was gone and its cornice had been painted white.
“Arched entrances with the same keyed blocks and limestone cresting as No. 1968 are at Nos. 1970, 1976, 1978, 1984, and 1986 (cresting missing at No. 1976)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
April 17
Katie R. Regal buys the new two-family house at No. 1976
According to the appendix of first owners in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's district report, Katie R. Regal purchased No. 1976 Morris Avenue (lot 5 of block 2807) on April 17, 1908. The first house in the row to sell, No. 1986, had gone in October 1907; No. 1976's sale came about six months later.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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