777 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
George F. Johnson & Sons build 777 Beck Street as the closing house of a Dickerson row
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No. 777 is one of seven pairs of two-family houses on the west side of Beck Street, between East 156th Street and Longwood Avenue, that W.C. Dickerson designed for the developers George F. Johnson & Sons in 1900. Nos. 775 and 777 end the row, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission singled the pair out for its decorative detail: two stories over a high basement, tall stoops, and three-sided angular bays.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
New siding has much altered 777 Beck Street while its twin at 775 stays nearly original
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Surveying the row for the Longwood Historic District in 1980, the Landmarks Preservation Commission found No. 775 intact apart from one replaced keystone, but noted that added siding had considerably changed No. 777. The pair was built with single glass doors under round-cornered transoms, colonnettes topped by foliate capitals, metal cornices decorated with swags and wreaths, and polygonal peaks behind false mansard fronts.
“…the original design of No. 775 is intact, although that of No. 777 has been considerably altered by the addition of new siding…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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