763 Beck Street

Longwood | built 1900

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.

1900
No. 763 Beck Street goes up as part of George F. Johnson & Sons' row of two-family houses
Warren C. Dickerson designed No. 763 and its partner No. 765 as one of seven two-family pairs on the west side of Beck Street, between East 156th Street and Longwood Avenue. The row was built in 1900 for George F. Johnson & Sons.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Dickerson mixes Francois I and Romanesque Revival details on the pair at Nos. 763-765 Beck Street
The 1980 report calls Nos. 763-765 quite different from Dickerson's other houses on the blockfront. Ogee arches with carved finials and corbels crown the front doors, a touch of the Francois I style, and bow-front bays carry rusticated stone bands and label lintels, a late Romanesque Revival feature also found in Tudor work. Steep gable ends rise over each bay, with stepped gables on the north and south ends.
“Nos. 763-765 are quite different in design from the other Dickerson houses on the block front.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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