2981 Perry Avenue

Bedford Park | built 1912

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

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1910
April 26
Charles S. Clark designs a row of Queen Anne houses on Perry Avenue for developer George D. Kingston
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Bronx developer George D. Kingston bought three lots here from the estate of attorney John A. Amundson in 1910, cut them into ten narrow parcels and hired Bronx architect Charles S. Clark. Plans filed on April 26, 1910 called for ten attached houses with alternating orange and red brick fronts, iron cornices and slate roofs. Only nine went up, and No. 2981 belongs to the five, Nos. 2979 to 2987, actually built as an attached row with porticos on slender Ionic columns.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
German-born tailor Louis Schene and his wife Juliane are early residents of No. 2981
According to the landmarks report, many of the row's first households were middle-class families headed by couples who had come over from Germany. Among them at No. 2981 were the tailor Louis Schene and his wife Juliane, both German immigrants. Their house was one of four in the row, with Nos. 2975, 2979 and 2985, that was later divided into apartments, usually as a six-room unit on the lower two floors and a three-room unit on top.
“Louis Schene (a tailor) and his wife Juliane of no. 2981, and Alfred Bornstedt (a business manager) of no. 2983, were also immigrants from Germany…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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