1994 Morris Avenue

Mount Hope | built 1906

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1906

   Red brick and an arched doorway mark No. 1994 in a row of bowed houses

   John Hauser gave this house and its twin, No. 1992, red brick, arched entrances and molded limestone window lintels, while the four buff-brick houses around them got rectangular doorways and splayed lintels with keystones. Like the rest of its six-house group, No. 1994 has a curved bow front, limestone trim and a galvanized iron cornice. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it in the 1980s, the cornice was painted white.

   “Nos. 1992 and 1994 (plates 28 and 29) are faced with red brick…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1906

   No. 1994 is built with a duplex below and a separate apartment on the top floor

   The three-story houses on Morris Avenue, including No. 1994, each held two households: a duplex on the first and second stories linked by an inside staircase, and a second apartment on the third story. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report suggests the plan may have been a response to the Sheridan Bill, a measure pushed by Bronx builders in 1906 and 1907 that would have exempted three-family dwellings from the Tenement House Law.

   “…a duplex apartment with connecting interior staircase on the first and second stories, and the second apartment on the third story…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1908

   December 7

   Annie Roberts and Margaret Griffen buy 1994 Morris Avenue

   Annie Roberts and Margaret Griffen are named together as the first owners of 1994 Morris Avenue, with a purchase date of December 7, 1908, in the appendix of first owners in the 1986 Morris Avenue Historic District report. The neighboring red-brick house, No. 1992, had gone to Rudolf Seus eight months earlier, on April 1, 1908.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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• 1996 Morris Avenue2 entries
• 1992 Morris Avenue3 entries
• 1990 Morris Avenue2 entries
• 1998 Morris Avenue2 entries
• 1988 Morris Avenue3 entries
• 108 East 179th Street3 entries

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