748 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
George Johnson's Kelly Street row gains No. 748, designed by Warren C. Dickerson
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No. 748 belongs to a run of six double houses on the east side of Kelly Street, each built for two families, that Warren C. Dickerson designed in 1899 as George Johnson opened up the street that year. Like its neighbors it forms a mirror-image pair with No. 746, sharing central entrances flanked by round or three-sided bays. Kelly Street itself honors Captain Samuel Kelly, a farmer whose land adjoined Longwood Park in the early 1800s.
“Kelly Street ... was developed by George Johnson in 1899. The street was named after Captain Samuel Kelly…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
No. 748 stands vacant with its doorway and windows filled with concrete block
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1980 Longwood Historic District report found No. 748 empty. Its ground-floor windows and front door had been replaced with concrete blocks, while its partner No. 746 had been covered in imitation stone siding. The commission noted that the pair was built to the same design as Nos. 734-736, a double house that was by then part of Prospect Hospital.
“…the ground floor windows and door of the vacant No. 748 have been replaced by concrete blocks.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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