1991 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. 1991 is laid out as a two-family house with a floor for each household
The first group of houses on the block, including No. 1991, was designed with one apartment per floor, and the ground-floor family could also use the high basement. Later houses on the block switched to three stories with a duplex below and a separate flat on top. The report asks whether that change was prompted by the Sheridan Bill, a 1906-07 effort to exempt three-family houses from the Tenement House Law.
“In the first group there was a floor for each family, and the family on the first floor also had use of the high basement.”
- 1906
No. 1991 trades its original areaway railings for a higher cyclone fence
No. 1991 shares a facade with No. 1989, the southern of three double houses that architect John Hauser designed for the north end of the west side, marked by straight limestone lintels. By 1986 its windows had aluminum sash and its cornice was unpainted. It and No. 1993 were the only houses in the group whose original areaway railings had been replaced by taller cyclone fencing.
- 1909
Peter Wynen becomes the first owner of No. 1991 Morris Avenue
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's list of the block's first owners records Peter Wynen as the original buyer of No. 1991, on lot 17 of tax block 2829, with a purchase date of March 15, 1909. The next house to the north, No. 1993, was bought a day later, on March 16, 1909, by Mary Ann Rudd.
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- 1995 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1997 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1985 Morris Avenue2 entries