60 East 179th Street
Mount Hope | built 1906
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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
August Jacob begins No. 60 in his first building campaign on the Morris Avenue block
Builder August Jacob and his architect John Hauser started their first group of houses on June 20, 1906: six lots on the west side of Morris Avenue (Nos. 1989-1999) plus the neighboring lot holding No. 60 East 179th Street. The work ran until January 1, 1907. These first houses were two stories over high English basements, built as two-family dwellings.
“The first building campaign, from June 20, 1906 to January 1, 1907, occurred on the last six lots on the west side of the street…”
- 1906
Hauser gives No. 60 a two-sided bay meant to meet a future neighbor
No. 60 is a single red-brick house of two stories on a high basement, with limestone trim and a galvanized iron cornice. Architect John Hauser gave it an angled bay with only two faces, expecting a party wall to rise against its south side, and it nearly mirrors No. 108 across the block's north end. The report of 1986 noted its original wrought-iron stoop railings and a later aluminum awning.
- 1908
Joseph A. and Elizabeth Richter become the first owners of No. 60
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's list of first owners on the Jacob development names Joseph A. and Elizabeth Richter as the first buyers of No. 60 East 179th Street, on October 23, 1908. The appendix, arranged by block and tax lot, places the house on lot 12 of block 2829, the last entry on the west side of the development.
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- 1999 Morris Avenue1 entry
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- 1989 Morris Avenue3 entries