1998 Morris Avenue

also 100 East 179th Street | 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
Hauser carries the front of No. 1998 around the corner onto East 179th Street
As the corner house of the second group, No. 1998 repeats its Morris Avenue design on its East 179th Street side, with keystoned splayed lintels, cornice and areaway railing all continuing around. The side's first story has a triple window under an elliptical arch of limestone voussoirs, with leaded art glass in the sidelights. In the 1980s the cornice was painted barn red and chicken wire covered the first-story windows.
“The treatment of No. 1998's East 179th Street elevation carries around from the principal facade. (So does the chicken wire.)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
March 20
Charles Reinhart buys the corner house at 1998 Morris Avenue
Charles Reinhart bought 1998 Morris Avenue, at the corner of East 179th Street, on March 20, 1907, according to the appendix of first owners in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1986 report. It is the earliest purchase date listed for any house on the east side of the block; the next, at No. 1990, came on July 3, 1907.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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