755 Beck Street

Longwood | built 1900

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

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1900
Warren C. Dickerson designs the 755-757 Beck Street pair for George F. Johnson & Sons
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No. 755 is half of a two-family pair with No. 757, one of seven pairs on the west side of Beck Street that Warren C. Dickerson designed for George F. Johnson & Sons, built in 1900. The landmarks report says this row echoes many of the houses across the street, and it lists the 755-757 pair as matching Dickerson's design at Nos. 716-718, a design that also appears at Nos. 759-761 and 767-769. That design sets rounded bays under low conical roofs and joins the two front doors under one shallow portico of three Ionic columns.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Landmarking 755 Beck Street's district, the commission credits developer Johnson and architect Dickerson
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In its 1980 findings on the Longwood Historic District, which includes 755 Beck Street, the Landmarks Preservation Commission said nearly the whole district was the work of developer George F. Johnson, and that Warren C. Dickerson drew almost all of its houses between 1897 and 1900. It counted the district among the best examples of the turn-of-the-century building that made the Bronx an urban extension of Manhattan after the IRT subway linked the two boroughs. It also praised the houses' setbacks for opening up the streets.
“…virtually all of the District was developed by an astute and farsighted developer, George F. Johnson…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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