28 East 11th Street

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

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1839
John Morss, a mason, sells most of the lots of a new brick row on East 11th Street, including No. 28
In 1839 a brick row of Greek Revival houses went up on the south side of East 11th Street, including No. 28. A mason named John Morss had bought most of the lots and sold them on to the first owners, and the report thinks he probably built the row himself. Nos. 26 and 28 later lost their low third story in a twentieth-century remodeling that added a full top floor with studio windows in a receding roof.
“John Morss, a mason, bought and then sold most of the properties on this block front to the original house owners of 1839…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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