742 Kelly Street

Longwood | built 1910

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

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1899
Dickerson frames the doorway of 742 Kelly Street with columns on pedestals
Nos. 742 and 744 make up a three-story pair from the 1899 Dickerson row on the east side of Kelly Street, with angular bays topped by peaked polygonal roofs. The ground floor is dominated by a neo-Renaissance doorway of freestanding columns set on pedestals under a carved entablature. Above it, paired windows combine shouldered frames with carved pediments and finials, and twisted rope columns mark the corners of the bays.
“A neo Renaissance door enframement, composed of free-standing columns mounted on pedestals and a decoratively carved entablature, dominates the ground floor.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1979
July 12
Eleven speakers back landmark status for the Longwood blocks, with no one opposed
The Landmarks Preservation Commission heard public testimony on July 12, 1979, on a proposal to make Longwood, including 742 Kelly Street, a historic district. Eleven people spoke in support, State Senator Mendez among them, and nobody spoke against it. Among the many letters the commission received was one from Edward Logue of the South Bronx Development Commission.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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