116-08 227th Street

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1931
September
Garages go up behind No. 116-08 and its row as St. Albans Lawns nears completion
After an easement was filed creating 10-foot-wide driveways along the backs of the lots, garages for the 227th Street houses, including No. 116-08, were under construction by September 1931, and the whole group was largely finished the next month. Sales started briskly, but several houses stayed unsold for over a year, probably owing to the worsening Depression.
“…its garages were built starting by September of 1931. The entire historic district appears to have been largely completed by the following month.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
No. 116-08 keeps its half-timbered stucco upper story
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No. 116-08, a 1931 Storybook row house by Andrew Marjey, is one of the row's paired houses, with a shared brick-and-stucco vestibule, round-arched entrances and a peaked gable above. It keeps its wood front door, half-timbered stucco upper story with random brick, and a chimney shared with No. 116-06. Its original eight-sash diamond-pane window has been replaced, a cellar door with a small pent roof was added, and a satellite dish sits on the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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