754 Kelly Street

Longwood | built 1910

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.

1893
Architect Warren C. Dickerson returns from California and builds a big New York practice
Warren C. Dickerson, who designed this house and almost all of the Longwood district's residences between 1897 and 1900, was a Long Island native born in 1853 who studied at the Cooper Institute. He worked as a carpenter, then ran architectural offices in San Diego and San Francisco before coming back to New York in 1893. An 1899 trade history said few New York architects had more work in fine residences and apartments.
“Dickerson, who was born on Long Island in 1853 and educated at the Cooper Institute... Dickerson returned to New York in 1893…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1899
W.C. Dickerson closes the Kelly Street row with a taller, flat-roofed pair
Nos. 754 and 756 Kelly Street end W.C. Dickerson's row of semi-detached houses on the east side of the block. Rising three stories over a basement, they are the tall houses of that side. Their angled bays, arched windows, twisted rope columns and keyed door surrounds are features Dickerson often combined in Longwood, but the pair's height, flat roof and prominent modillioned cornice are more unusual.
“Nos. 754-756 terminate the row, and designed with three stories over basement, are the tall houses on the east side of the street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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