1993 Morris Avenue

Mount Hope | built 1906

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1906

    June 20

    Builder August Jacob begins his Morris Avenue development with six houses including No. 1993

    Construction of the first houses in August Jacob's Morris Avenue venture ran from June 20, 1906, to January 1, 1907, covering 1989 through 1999 Morris Avenue and 60 East 179th Street. Architect John Hauser arranged the six Morris Avenue houses as three double buildings, each two stories tall over a high English basement. Later houses on the block were built a full story taller.

    “The first building campaign, from June 20, 1906 to January 1, 1907, occurred on the last six lots on the west side of the street…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1906

    Angled bays and red brick set the middle pair, Nos. 1993 and 1995, apart from their neighbors

    Nos. 1993 and 1995 make up the center of John Hauser's three double houses, and he gave them a different look from the pairs on either side. Angled bay windows flank their doorways instead of curved bows, the brickwork is red instead of buff, and the second-story windows are round-headed with keystones. Their entrance surrounds are also plainer, without the attached columns and projecting architraves used next door.

    “Instead of bow windows there are angled bay windows flanking the paired entrances. The brick ie red, rather than buff…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1909

    March 16

    Mary Ann Rudd buys No. 1993, one of three houses she acquires on the block

    Mary Ann Rudd is listed as the first owner of 1993 Morris Avenue, purchased on March 16, 1909, in the first-owners appendix of the Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1986 report on the Morris Avenue Historic District. The same list names her as the first buyer of two more houses on the west side of the block, both bought on one day in 1909.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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