65 East Tremont Avenue
Mount Hope | built 1909
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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.
- 1909
August Jacob starts the corner tenement at 65 East Tremont Avenue
The five-story tenement at 65 East Tremont Avenue belonged to builder August Jacob's fifth and final campaign on the Morris Avenue block, with its twin across the street and No. 1968 Morris Avenue. Plans for all three were approved on January 27, 1909. No. 1968 was started on April 1, and the two tenements followed four months later, on August 12.
“…the tenements were begun four months later, on August 12…”
- 1909
Hauser rounds the sharp corner of 65 East Tremont where Tremont meets Morris at an angle
Because Tremont Avenue crosses Morris Avenue on a diagonal, the corner lot here was too narrow at its western line for a tenement, so John Hauser took in the lot to the north as well. He softened the resulting acute southeast corner by rounding it, and rounded the northeast corner to meet the bow of its neighbor, No. 1971 Morris Avenue. Unlike its twin at 101 East Tremont, it has two ranks of wide windows.
“Tremont's southeast corner Is an acute angle; Hauser compensated for what would have been too sharp an edge by rounding this corner…”
- 1910
Charles C. Sievers buys the new tenement at 65 East Tremont
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's appendix of first owners lists Charles C. Sievers as the first buyer of 65 East Tremont Avenue, also known as 1969 Morris Avenue, on April 4, 1910. The same list gives Sievers and the same date for 101 East Tremont Avenue, the twin tenement on the opposite corner of Morris Avenue.
Nearby
- 1971 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1973 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1975 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1977 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1979 Morris Avenue2 entries
- 1968 Morris Avenue3 entries