877 Macy Place

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
877 Macy Place rises three full stories, taller than the rest of the row
No. 877 and its partner No. 879 break from the other Macy Place pairs with three full stories over a low basement and a correspondingly lower stoop flanked by cheek walls. The grey brick front mixes Roman brick on the flat sections with common brick on the round bays. By 1983 its brownstone stoop was in poor condition and its basement doorway grille was missing.
“This pair differs from the other Macy Place buildings in that it is three full stories over a low basement…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Warren C. Dickerson designs 877 Macy Place as one of five double houses
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Architect Warren C. Dickerson designed the five near-identical double houses on the north side of Macy Place, including No. 877, in 1900 for a street developed by Theodore Macy. Unlike the houses in the original Longwood district, these were built without false mansard roofs; their roofs are flat.
“Designed by the Architect Warren C. Dickerson in 1900, the double houses…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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