720 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
A carved swag frieze marks No. 720 and its partner in Dickerson's Beck Street row
Warren C. Dickerson designed No. 720 together with No. 722 in 1900 for George F. Johnson, repeating the plan of the neighboring pair at Nos. 716-718: high stoops, rounded bays with conical roofs, and a three-column Ionic portico spanning both entrances. The difference is the portico frieze, which here carries a carved swag rather than leaves. Landmarks surveyors in 1980 found the original design remarkably intact, scalloped shingles and wood-and-glass doors included.
“Nos. 716-718 and Nos. 720-722 are similar in appearance to one another; their original designs remarkably intact.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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