764 Dawson Street

Longwood | built 1897

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

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1897
George F. Johnson builds 764 Dawson Street as one of seven semi-detached pairs by W.C. Dickerson
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No. 764 is part of a group of seven pairs of semi-detached houses on the east side of Dawson Street, between East 156th Street and Longwood Avenue, that W.C. Dickerson designed for developer George F. Johnson in 1897. The 762-764 pair is the first of the group in street order.
“Nos. 762-788. Designed by W.C. Dickerson, this group of seven pairs of semi-detached residences was built for George F. Johnson in 1897.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
764 Dawson Street survives nearly unchanged with its rough-cut Romanesque arches
Nos. 762-764 share a design with 774-776: two and a half stories over a high basement, a central stoop between three-sided angular bays, Composite pilasters and carved foliate brackets at the doors, and heavy rough-cut stone arches in the Romanesque Revival manner. Only the roof shingles of No. 764 had been replaced when the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the pair in 1980.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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