861 Macy Place

Longwood | built 1910

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

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1900
Dickerson designs Nos. 861 and 863 as one of Macy Place's double houses
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Nos. 861 and 863 make up one of the five double houses Warren C. Dickerson designed in 1900 for Theodore Macy's street. Like Dickerson's houses in the original Longwood district, they mix neo-Renaissance details such as masonry bays and classical columns with a touch of Romanesque Revival in rough-cut stone and arched windows, but they lack the false mansard roofs used there.
“The five nearly identical double houses that make up the Extension…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1983
Angular bays and painted Roman brick distinguish the 861-863 pair
Unlike the round-bayed pair next door, Nos. 861 and 863 have angular bays. The 1983 designation report described facades of Roman brick, since painted, with limestone trim on the upper floors and brownstone at the basement level. All of the trim and the brownstone stoops had been painted as well, and the wood one-over-one windows had gained aluminum storm windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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