{"nrhp_refnum":"83001640","name":"Longwood Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Beck St., Longwood, Leggett, and Prospect Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.815492722000045,"lon":-73.89904577799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 16 acres in the Longwood section of the South Bronx, New York City, made up mostly of semi-detached rowhouses on six streets and developed between 1898 and 1906.","why_significant":"The district is an unusual, cohesive turn-of-the-century neighborhood, developed by George B. Johnson on a former estate and designed almost entirely by architect Warren C. Dickerson. Its houses combine neo-Renaissance and Romanesque Revival elements and are strikingly homogeneous. It contains some of the best of the turn-of-the-century architecture that turned the Bronx into an urban extension of Manhattan.","narrative":"Longwood Historic District is a residential neighborhood in the South Bronx, built mainly between 1898 and 1906 on the site of a former estate. Developer George B. Johnson bought the abandoned S. B. White estate around 1898 and hired architect Warren C. Dickerson to design nearly all of the buildings. Rows of 2½-story semi-detached brick houses line Hewitt Place, Dawson, Kelly and Beck Streets, Macy Place and East 156th Street. The houses are set back behind gardens and iron-railed stoops, and many have false mansard roofs with polygonal or conical peaks. Their style blends neo-Renaissance details, such as masonry bays and classical columns, with the heavier proportions, rough-cut stone and arched windows of the Romanesque Revival. Other buildings include a former synagogue, an Episcopal church, a small apartment building and a hospital. The district contrasts with surrounding blocks of tenements and frame houses, and it was listed for its consistent architecture and planned development.","period_of_significance":"1898-1906","architect_builder":"Warren C. Dickerson, Charles S. Clark, James Meeham et. al.","architectural_style":"Neo-Renaissance combined with Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are in excellent to good condition. A 2010 rehabilitation returned the former estate house at 990 East 156th Street to its 1900 appearance as the Longwood Club, making it a contributing building. The Cedars housing project (2010) is non-contributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.48574-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001640.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001640/fc12612811-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001640/fc12612811-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Margaret%27s_Episcopal_Church,_Bronx,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Margaret%27s_Episcopal_Church,_Bronx,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316491","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood_Historic_District_(Bronx)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6674522"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/longwood-historic-district-83001640/"}