1981 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. 1981 gets an arched doorway on corbels carved as beardless turbaned heads
No. 1981 belongs to the nine buff-brick houses August Jacob built on the west side of Morris Avenue in 1907, designed by John Hauser. Its arched entrance rests on corbels carved as human heads; here both faces are beardless and wear turbans, while the pair next door at No. 1983 is bearded. The district report noted that its windows had been converted to aluminum sash.
“At No. 1981 (plate 44 ) both faces are beardless and wear turbans…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
October 23
Anna and Charles F. Siemons buy No. 1981
Anna and Charles F. Siemons are recorded as the first owners of No. 1981 Morris Avenue, lot 81 of block 2829, in the appendix to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report. The table dates their purchase October 23, 1908, one of the earliest sales in the nine-house row.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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