747 Kelly Street

Longwood | built 1899

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1899
Warren C. Dickerson designs No. 747 in a west-side row of seven double houses for George Johnson
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The houses on the west side of Kelly Street, like those facing them, were designed in 1899 by Warren C. Dickerson for the developer George Johnson, as seven pairs of semi-detached residences. No. 747 and its partner No. 745 repeat the design of Nos. 737-739 on the same row, a pair the Landmarks Preservation Commission found still kept its scalloped roof shingles, window grilles, double doors and iron gates and fences.
“Nos. 729-755. These houses, like those across the street, were designed in 1899 by W.C. Dickerson for George Johnson.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
No. 747 sits empty with its lower windows sealed in concrete block
By 1980, when the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Longwood Historic District, No. 747 was vacant. The report notes that its basement and parlor-floor windows had been closed up with concrete blocks, unlike the matching pair at Nos. 737-739, which kept most of their original fittings.
“No. 747 is vacant and the basement and parlor floor windows have been sealed with concrete blocks.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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