765 Beck Street

Longwood | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1900

    No. 765 Beck Street forms the eclectic double house at Nos. 763-765 designed by Warren C. Dickerson

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    Built in 1900 for George F. Johnson & Sons, No. 765 is half of a pair that the 1980 landmarks report calls quite different from Dickerson's other houses on its blockfront. Dickerson combined ogee-arched doorways with carved finials, in the manner of the Francois I style, and bow-front bays banded in rusticated stone under label lintels ending in small corbels. Steeply pitched gables project from the roof above each bay, and stepped gables close the north and south ends of the building.

    “Here the architect has combined elements from a variety of styles. The elegant ogee arches that crown the front doors…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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