718 Beck Street

Longwood | built 1900

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

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1900
No. 718 rises as part of one of Dickerson's latest and best Longwood rows
No. 718 belongs to a row of eight two-and-a-half-story double houses that Warren C. Dickerson drew in 1900 for George F. Johnson, among the architect's latest designs in the Longwood district and, in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's view, some of his best. Shared with No. 716, the house has rounded bays, classical cornice ornament of modillions, dentils and wreaths, and Ionic columns beside the bay windows. In 1980 it still kept its first scalloped roof shingles and double wood-and-glass doors under transoms.
“Among the latest residences designed by Dickerson in the Longwood District, these two-and-one-half story houses represent some of the architect's best work…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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