115-80 222nd Street

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1931
Selective Homes Inc. builds 115-80 222nd Street in a Tudor-inflected Storybook style
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This house was built in 1931 by Selective Homes Inc. under permit NB 2168-31, with Monda & Bertolazzi as architects. It is one of 46 houses the developer put up on 222nd Street in the Storybook style with Tudor Revival elements: red Flemish-bond brick with burnt headers, steep vestibule roofs, Tudor-arched first-story windows and stuccoed parapet gables. Garage entrances at the rear left the front lawns uninterrupted.
“No. 115-80 222nd Street is one of 46 row houses built by Selective Homes Inc.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
115-80 222nd Street pairs with No. 115-78 behind a herringbone-brick vestibule
No. 115-80 mirrors No. 115-78, sharing a five-sided peaked vestibule of herringbone brick with a round-arched doorway, a triangular entrance gable and wide gambrel-shaped half-timbered parapet gables. The wood entry door may be original, and the house keeps the vestibule's wood eave trim and a brick chimney on the left set with stone accent blocks. The diamond-paned leaded-glass window on the first story has been replaced, as have the upstairs six-over-one wood windows.
“…historic features include the vestibule’s-herringbone brick pattern and the eave’s wood trim; possibly the wood entry door…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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