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THE BOROUGH OF THE BRONX 



building in Morrisania and the only one that antidates the forma- 

 tion of the village of Morrisania in 1848. 



The Wm. H. Morris mansion at One Hundred and Sixty-fifth 

 Street, Findlay and Teller Avenues, was built in 1816, and was 

 recently purchased by the Daughters of Jacob; it is to be re- 

 modeled for a synagog. 



Just west of the old mansion stands a quaint stone structure 



Outhouse, Morris Farm 



dating from 1792. It was probably an outhouse of the old farm. 

 Upon the death of Gouverneur Morris in 1816, and of his 

 wife in 1837, the property east of Mill Brook passed into the hands 

 of their son, Gouverneur Morris, Esq., the pioneer railroad builder. 

 In memory of his mother, Anne Cary Randolph, he erected in the 

 year 1841, at St. Ann's Avenue and East One Hundred and Fortieth 

 Street, a church known since as St. Ann's Episcopal Church. In 

 the vaults beneath the old church and adjacent thereto, lie interred 

 the remains of the members of this illustrious family whose mag- 



