1985 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
Fourth building campaign raises No. 1985 in a uniform row of buff-brick bowed houses
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No. 1985 is one of nine three-story houses, Nos. 1971 to 1987, that architect John Hauser designed for developer August Jacob and that went up in 1907. Unlike the rows across the street, all nine use the same buff brick. No. 1985 has the rectangular entrance and the splayed window lintels with prominent keystones, and by 1986 its windows had been changed to aluminum sash.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
May 2
Mary I. Hennessey becomes the first owner of No. 1985 Morris Avenue
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's list of the block's first owners records Mary I. Hennessey as the original buyer of No. 1985, on lot 80 of tax block 2829, with a purchase date of May 2, 1910. On the same side of the street, a single buyer, Mary Ann Rudd, took three houses: Nos. 1977, 1979 and 1993.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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