1987 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. 1987 marks a break in the row's rhythm of bows and entrances
No. 1987 closes the row of nine buff-brick houses that John Hauser designed for August Jacob on the west side of Morris Avenue. The commission's report notes that the regular sequence of bows and entrances changes at Nos. 1986 and 1987, where entrances abut and are framed by bows, a shift that leads into the paired houses just to the north. In 1986 No. 1987 still had its original wood sash, fitted with aluminum storm windows and screens.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
November 9
Emma Stuve Barker becomes the first owner of No. 1987 Morris Avenue
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's list of the block's first owners records Emma Stuve Barker as the original buyer of No. 1987, on lot 19 of tax block 2829, with a purchase date of November 9, 1909. Her neighbor to the south, No. 1985, was not bought until May 2, 1910, by Mary I. Hennessey.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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