724 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
Warren C. Dickerson designs 724 Beck Street as half of a double house for George F. Johnson
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Number 724 and its partner at 726 belong to a row of eight double houses that Dickerson designed in 1900 for George F. Johnson on the east side of Beck Street, among his latest work in the Longwood district. The pair closely follows Nos. 712-714, with three-sided angular bays, but adds stone door frames keyed into the brick, narrow transoms above the parlor windows and a swag motif in the cornice frieze.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Longwood's landmark designation finds 724 Beck Street still intact while its twin decays
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed Beck Street for the Longwood Historic District in 1980, it recorded that No. 724 kept its original design. Its attached partner at No. 726 was by then empty, with cement blocks filling its openings, a contrast the report said spoiled an otherwise fine group of houses.
“While No. 724 retains its original design, No. 726, now vacant, is in a bad state of repair.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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