766 Dawson Street
Longwood | built 1897
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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 766 Dawson Street as one of seven double houses by W.C. Dickerson
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No. 766 belongs to a run of seven semi-detached pairs, Nos. 762 to 788 on the east side of Dawson Street, that Warren C. Dickerson designed for George F. Johnson in 1897. The street itself honors Henry B. Dawson, a nineteenth-century historian who spent his whole life in Morrisania.
“Designed by W.C. Dickerson, this group of seven pairs of semi-detached residences was built for George F. Johnson in 1897.”
- 1897
766 Dawson Street shares a stone-trimmed design found nowhere else in Longwood
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Nos. 766 and 768 are the only pair of their kind in the Longwood Historic District, which the Landmarks Commission counted among Dickerson's more unusual designs. Fanlit front doors sit in wide arched stone frames topped by carved anthemions, and the arched parlor windows are divided by Ionic stone pilasters. At designation the pair still kept nearly every original element, down to its low iron fence and driveway gates; only one pediment finial was missing.
“Nos. 766-768 are the only pair of their type to appear in the Longwood District.”
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- 768 Dawson Street1 entry
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- 762 Dawson Street3 entries
- 772 Dawson Street2 entries
- 774 Dawson Street1 entry