775 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
W. C. Dickerson gives 775 Beck Street carved band courses and swag-and-wreath cornices
Nos. 775 and 777 close the row of seven Dickerson pairs built in 1900 for George F. Johnson & Sons. The houses rise two stories over a high basement, reached by high stoops, with glass doors framed by colonnettes with foliate capitals, angular bays wrapped in carved band courses, and metal cornices decorated with swags and wreaths beneath polygonal peaks and false mansard fronts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Landmarks report finds 775 Beck Street intact save for one keystone
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1980 Longwood report found the original design of No. 775 intact apart from a single keystone that had been replaced. Its partner, No. 777, had been considerably changed by new siding. At No. 775 the second-story windows carry splayed lintels with scroll keystones.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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