1997 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.

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

1906
Limestone keystones crown the windows of the northern pair, Nos. 1997 and 1999
Nos. 1997 and 1999 form the northern double house of John Hauser's first group, with curved bow windows whose openings carry limestone keystones; the southern pair at Nos. 1989 and 1991 got straight lintels instead. Each house is 20 feet wide, 55 feet deep and 34 feet from curb to cornice. By the 1980s No. 1997 had aluminum sash and a cornice painted green.
“…the windows of the northernmost, Nos. 1997 and 1999 (plate 48), are constructed with limestone keystones…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1906
No. 1997 is planned with one floor for each of two families
Hauser laid out the first group of houses on the block, including No. 1997, as two-family homes with a full floor for each household, and the ground-floor household also had the high basement. In the three-story houses that followed elsewhere on the block, he changed the plan to a two-story duplex with a separate apartment on the top floor.
“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.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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