738 Kelly Street

Longwood | built 1899

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

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1899
Warren C. Dickerson gives 738 Kelly Street an unusual design among his Longwood houses
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No. 738 forms a pair with No. 740, designed in 1899 by W.C. Dickerson, yet the 1980 landmarks report found them quite unlike his other houses in the district. They rise three stories, with central entrances between round bays that swell at the bottom and carry iron railings, and with engaged Ionic columns and shouldered window frames in the neo-Renaissance manner. A cornice with classical wreaths crowns the pair, which were first topped by mansard roofs.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1899
George Johnson develops Kelly Street, named for a 19th-century farm owner
According to the landmarks commission, developer George Johnson built up this stretch of Kelly Street in 1899, including the house at No. 738. The street took its name from Captain Samuel Kelly, whose farm bordered Longwood Park in the early 1800s, when Longwood was still a rural corner of Morrisania.
“…was developed by George Johnson in 1899. The street was named after Captain Samuel Kelly who owned a farm adjoining Longwood Park…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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