1978 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 puts up No. 1978 in dark honey brick to match the Tremont corner tenements
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Built in 1907 in the third of developer August Jacob's building campaigns, No. 1978 is one of four houses in the nine-house east-side row faced in the dark honey-colored brick also used on the tenements at the Tremont Avenue corner. Architect John Hauser gave it an arched doorway with keyed blocks, limestone cresting and bellflower corbels. The report found its original wood sash and its wrought-iron stoop and areaway railings still in place, with a black-painted cornice.
“Nos. 1970, 1972, 1978, and 1980 (plates 13, 14, 15, and 16) are faced with the same dark honey-colored brick as the corner tenements on Tremont…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
April 6
Joseph Lahres becomes the first owner of No. 1978
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's appendix of first owners lists Joseph Lahres as the purchaser of No. 1978 Morris Avenue, lot 6 of block 2807, on April 6, 1908. He bought it eleven days before Katie R. Regal bought No. 1976 next door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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