770 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
Rounded bays and carved stone panels mark the 770-772 Dawson Street pair
Nos. 770 and 772 form another uncommon pair on the block, built with rounded bays. Their front doors carry transom lights and stand between brick piers topped with carved stone foliate capitals, and carved stone panels fill the spaces between the bay windows on both floors. A single Ionic pilaster marks the line between the two houses at the second story, below a modillioned cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1897
Warren C. Dickerson, a carpenter turned architect, designs the Longwood houses
Nearly every house in the Longwood district, No. 770 among them, was designed between 1897 and 1900 by Warren C. Dickerson. Born on Long Island in 1853 and trained at the Cooper Institute, he worked for years as a carpenter, then set up as an architect in San Diego, moved his practice on to San Francisco and came back to New York in 1893. An 1899 trade history judged that probably no other New York architect had a larger practice in fine houses and apartments.
“…almost all of the residences were designed between 1897 and 1900 by the architect, Warren C. Dickerson, who was born on Long Island in 1853…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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