1988 Morris Avenue
Mount Hope | built 1906
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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.
- 1906
No. 1988 is built as one of a buff-brick pair in the block's first full three-story row
Built in 1906, about six months before the row to its south, No. 1988 is one of six houses that were the second group raised on the block. It and No. 1990 form a pair of buff-brick fronts with rectangular entrances and splayed lintels with keystones. In 1986 it kept its paired wood and glass doors but had lost its basement window grilles, and its cornice was painted gray.
“No. 1988 is missing its basement window grilles.”
- 1907
August Jacob buys the lot for No. 1988 apart from the rest of his east-side parcel
Deed records show that lot 10, the site of No. 1988 Morris Avenue, was acquired separately on February 15, 1907. The rest of Parcel 3, the other lots in that stretch of the east side, had been bought in 1906. The report explains that Jacob could not acquire the whole block at once, which is why it was built in separate campaigns.
“…deed records reveal that lot 10, containing No. 1988, was bought separately, on February 15, 1907…”
- 1907
Clementine Brodbeck becomes the first owner of No. 1988 Morris Avenue
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's list of the block's first owners records Clementine Brodbeck as the original buyer of No. 1988, on lot 10 of tax block 2807, with a purchase date of October 10, 1907. Only two houses on the east side of the street, Nos. 1990 and 1998, carry earlier purchase dates in the list.
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- 1986 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1990 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1984 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1992 Morris Avenue3 entries
- 1982 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1994 Morris Avenue3 entries