712 Beck Street
Longwood | built 1900
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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.
- 1898
Developer George B. Johnson buys the White estate and builds up Longwood
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Longwood stayed rural until the late 1800s, when publicized plans for an IRT subway link between the Bronx and Manhattan drew speculators and developers. Around 1898 developer George B. Johnson bought the abandoned S. B. White estate, and he developed nearly all of what is now the Longwood Historic District. The subway, finished in 1904, set off a building boom that lasted nearly thirty years.
“Virtually all of the district was developed by an astute and farsighted developer, George B. Johnson…”
- 1900
Warren C. Dickerson designs 712 Beck Street for George F. Johnson
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No. 712 opens a row of eight double houses on the east side of Beck Street that Warren C. Dickerson designed in 1900 for George F. Johnson, among his last in the Longwood district. Paired with No. 714, it has three-sided bays, Roman brick with limestone trim, Romanesque arched second-story windows with twisted rope columns, and a false-front mansard roof. Its original door had been replaced by 1980.
“Designed in 1900 by Warren C. Dickerson for George F. Johnson…”
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