931 East 156th Street

also 758 Dawson Street | Longwood | built 1897

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

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1897
Dickerson designs No. 931 for George F. Johnson among the earliest houses of the Longwood development
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No. 931 East 156th Street ends a row of eight two-family houses on the street's north side that W.C. Dickerson designed for developer George F. Johnson in 1897. The landmarks report counts these among the earliest Dickerson houses in the district. Unlike the semi-detached pairs between them, No. 931 and No. 949 at the other end were built as free-standing single houses.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
No. 931 keeps its round corner tower and original galvanized iron cornice
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The house's corner is marked by a narrow round tower with a steep conical roof, lit by tall windows on the two main floors and half-windows in the attic, with smaller conical-roofed bays at the rear corners. In 1980 the Landmarks Preservation Commission noted that No. 931 still had its galvanized iron cornice with foliate modillions, while its mirror-image twin at No. 949 had lost its cornice to metal sheathing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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