763 Dawson Street

Longwood | built 1898

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

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1898
George F. Johnson builds 763 Dawson Street, part of seven Dickerson pairs on the block
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No. 763 belongs to the pair 761-763, one of seven pairs of semi-detached houses that W.C. Dickerson designed in 1898 for developer George F. Johnson on the west side of Dawson Street, between East 156th Street and Longwood Avenue. Dickerson's Longwood doubles joined two houses under one roof, with a side driveway and iron gate between each pair, and most were set back from the street behind gardens or basement areas.
“This group of seven pairs of semi-detached houses was designed by W.C. Dickerson in 1898 for George F. Johnson.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
763 Dawson Street keeps its foliated door pediments and anthemion cornice
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The 1980 Longwood designation report describes the 761-763 pair as having three-sided angular bays capped by steep polygonal roofs, with foliated pediments and urns over the doors like those across the street at 782-784 Dawson. A classical cornice with an anthemion motif runs across the top. By then the front doors of both houses had been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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