757 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. 757 is half of a two-family pair with No. 755, 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
Commission finds owner-occupied Longwood, home to 757 Beck Street, spared the South Bronx's decay
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The 1980 designation report for the Longwood Historic District, which includes 757 Beck Street, placed the neighborhood amid some of the worst devastation in the South Bronx. Even so, it found the blocks in good shape, crediting Prospect Hospital (built 1961-64) and the large number of homes lived in by their owners. It added that the district's even scale and consistent style give it a special sense of place.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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