969 East 156th Street

also 749 Beck Street | Longwood | built 1904

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

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1904
Architect James Meehan builds a two-family house for John McGrath at Beck and East 156th Streets
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In 1904 a three-story brick house went up at the northwest corner of Beck Street and East 156th Street, designed by James Meehan as a two-family home for John McGrath. Its main fronts carry neo-Renaissance trim, and the 1980 landmarks report lists it under its Beck Street number, 749, rather than as 969 East 156th Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Landmarks report finds the McGrath house nearly unaltered, its iron fence still in place
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When the Longwood district was designated in 1980, the commission found this corner house largely unchanged. Full-height three-sided bays rise on its south and east fronts, trimmed with beveled panels, swags and small fluted Corinthian pilasters, under brownstone lintels with scrolled keystones. A dentilled cornice with a swag frieze tops the walls, and the original decorative iron fence still lined the street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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