1996 Morris Avenue

Mount Hope | built 1906

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1906
No. 1996 keeps its original paired doors and an unpainted cornice
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No. 1996 is one of four buff-brick houses in its six-house row, built with a rectangular entrance and splayed window lintels with keystones and paired with No. 1998. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described it in the 1980s, it still had its paired wood-and-glass doors, though the transom was cracked, along with aluminum storm sash and screens. Its cornice was the only one in the group left unpainted.
“All six houses retain their paired wood and glass doors and transoms, though No. 1996's transom is cracked.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1919
May 1
Moses and Louise R. Levy buy 1996 Morris Avenue
Moses and Louise R. Levy are listed as the first owners of 1996 Morris Avenue, with a purchase date of May 1, 1919, in the appendix of first owners in the 1986 Morris Avenue Historic District report. Most other houses in their row had changed hands in 1907 and 1908, more than a decade before the Levys bought.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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