743 Kelly Street

Longwood | built 1901

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

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1899
743 Kelly Street completes a semi-detached pair built to share one roof
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No. 743 is one half of a double house that W.C. Dickerson designed in 1899 together with No. 741. Like most of his Longwood houses, it is joined to its neighbor under a single roof, with the two entrances and stoops side by side between flanking bays. Each double unit was meant for two or three families and set apart from the next by a driveway and an iron gate.
“These houses are somewhat unusual in design in that they are semi-detached -- two residences joined by the same roof.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Landmarks report finds Longwood, including 743 Kelly Street, holding up amid South Bronx decline
The 1980 designation report placed the district, including 743 Kelly Street, in a community then called Pueblo de Mayaguez, set within one of the hardest-hit parts of the South Bronx. The commission credited nearby Prospect Hospital and the large share of houses lived in by their owners with keeping these blocks remarkably free of decay.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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