952 East 156th Street

Longwood | built 1899

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.

1899
Warren C. Dickerson designs No. 952 as an end house in a group of three two-family pairs
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Developer George F. Johnson & Sons had architect Warren C. Dickerson design Nos. 952-966 East 156th Street in 1899 as three pairs of two-family houses; the numbers 954 and 964 were skipped. No. 952 belongs to the outer pairs, which have steep stoops, round bays topped with low cone roofs, and tall double-hung windows under plain parlor-floor lintels and keystoned lintels above.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
No. 952 joins the Longwood Historic District with its front covered in synthetic siding
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Longwood Historic District on July 8, 1980, taking in this house. Its report noted that a covering of synthetic siding had substantially changed the look of No. 952, though like the other three end-pair houses in its group it still kept its original double doors of wood and glass beneath transom lights.
“The facade at No. 952 has been sheathed in synthetic siding, considerably altering the original design of the house…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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