1979 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
No. 1979 goes up in the buff-brick west-side row of 1907
No. 1979 belongs to the fourth group of houses developer August Jacob built on this block of Morris Avenue, nine buff-brick three-story homes designed by John Hauser. It has a rectangular entrance and keystoned window lintels. By the time of the district report a modern aluminum awning hung over its door and its cornice was painted black.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
September
Mary Ann Rudd buys No. 1979 together with the house next door
Mary Ann Rudd is listed as the first owner of No. 1979 Morris Avenue, lot 21 of block 2829, in the appendix to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's district report. The table dates her purchase 9/31/1909, the same entry it gives for her purchase of No. 1977 next door; she also bought No. 1993 in March 1909.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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