768 Beck Street

Longwood | built 1900

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

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1900
Warren C. Dickerson designs No. 768 Beck Street for George F. Johnson
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No. 768 is part of the row of fourteen houses in seven pairs that Warren C. Dickerson designed in 1900 for George F. Johnson on the east side of Beck Street. It was paired with No. 770, and the two originally repeated the design of Nos. 724-726, with angular bays, polygonal roofs and arched windows on the second story.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Landmarks commission finds No. 768 Beck Street covered in stone siding, with much original trim intact
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By 1980 the pair at Nos. 768-770 had been covered with stone siding, which the commission said left the houses quite altered in appearance. Much original detail still remained, including the arched moldings, the carved impost bands at the second story and the cornice, but the roof shingles had replaced the original imbricated covering.
“Covered with stone siding, these houses are quite altered in appearance, although much of the original detail…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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