966 East 156th Street

Longwood | built 1901

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

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1899
George F. Johnson & Sons builds three pairs of two-family houses on East 156th Street
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In 1899 the developers George F. Johnson & Sons put up a group of three two-family double houses at Nos. 952-966 East 156th Street, to designs by Warren C. Dickerson. This house belongs to one of the two end pairs, Nos. 962-966; the numbers 954 and 964 were left out of the street numbering, according to the 1980 landmarks report.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Landmarks report finds the end pair's original doors intact but its roofing replaced
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The commission's 1980 survey describes the end pairs of the group as reached by steep stoops set between rounded bays capped with low conical roofs. Tall, narrow double-hung windows sit under plain stone lintels on the parlor floor and keystoned, splayed lintels one story up. The pair at Nos. 962-966 still had its original double wood-and-glass doors with transoms, though its roof covering had been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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