773 Dawson Street

Longwood | built 1898

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

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1898
Angular bays and keyed stone doorways define 773 Dawson Street
No. 773 copies the Beck Street design of Nos. 724 and 726: three-sided angular bays capped by peaked polygonal roofs above false-front mansards, Roman brick walls and arched windows on the second story. Its doorway has a stone surround keyed into the brickwork, narrow transom lights sit over the parlor windows, and a swag motif decorates the cornice frieze.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Landmarks Commission ties 773 Dawson Street to the subway-era growth of the Bronx
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In designating the Longwood Historic District, the Landmarks Commission noted that the area was once part of Morrisania, one of twenty-one townships the State Legislature created in Westchester County in 1788. It found the district held some of the best turn-of-the-century architecture made after the IRT subway joined the Bronx to Manhattan, nearly all of it developed by George F. Johnson.
“Longwood Hisforic District was originally part of Morrisania, one of twenty one townships established by the State Legislature in Westchester County in 1788…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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