SoBro is often synonymous with Section 8, but Dawson Street between 152nd Street and Longwood Avenue has a collection of Victorian, semi-detached private housing that rivals almost anything in the city.
Almost all were designed by the same architect between 1897 and 1900, about a decade after our 1886 Romanesque ClockTower.
They are all wonderful but 770-772 is especially in the Romanesque style.
Rugged front doors are capped by delicate glass transoms and a stone frieze supported by carved stone capitals.
Bas relief stone was soon to become all the rage in the NeoClassic Era, beginning right at about this time.
But this architect was obviously working in bas relief early. And often.
It has a bowed, bay window facade that continues right up to the third floor attic balcony.
Nice, huh? Mayor Ed Koch found the money to restore this Historic District in the South Bronx back in 1980 and folks have been livin’ large here ever since.
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