958 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.

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1899
Warren C. Dickerson gives No. 958 one of his more unusual entrances
Built in 1899 for George F. Johnson & Sons, Nos. 958-960 East 156th Street are the central and more elaborate pair of a six-house group by Warren C. Dickerson. They rise two stories over a basement behind high stoops, with three-sided bays and central entrances whose double doors sit under carved swan's-neck pediments in stone, flanked by small stone columns.
“Nos. 958-960 East 156th Street, the central pair, are more elaborately designed…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
The Longwood district report singles out Nos. 958-960 as remarkably intact
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Longwood Historic District on July 8, 1980, its report described the pair at Nos. 958-960 as remarkably intact and called the design one of Warren C. Dickerson's more interesting. The report noted that the same design appears at Nos. 761-763 Dawson Street.
“…remarkably intact. It represents one of the Dickerson's more interesting house designs…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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