St. Margaret's Rectory
948 East 156th Street | Longwood | built 1926
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1926
Ernest A. Lynde designs No. 948 as the rectory of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church
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In 1926 architect Ernest A. Lynde designed this two-and-a-half-story house of stuccoed brick at the southwest corner of Kelly Street as the rectory for St. Margaret's Episcopal Church. It sits back from the sidewalk behind a small garden with an iron fence.
- 1980
The landmark report finds Lynde's simple rectory design nearly intact
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1980 report describes a symmetrical front with a central ground-floor door framed by wooden pilasters and an entablature under a bracketed hood. Flat-arched windows flank the door, three matching deep-set windows line the second floor, and a steep peaked roof crowns the house. Only the front door had been replaced.
“While a modern front door replaces the original, the remainder of Lynde's original desi gn is intact…”
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