116-43 227th Street

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1931
April
Architect Andrew Marjey files plans for this house and 49 others on 227th Street
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In April 1931 Andrew J. Marjey filed plans for the 50 houses of Wolosoff Brothers' St. Albans Lawns, No. 116-43 among them, with a combined estimated cost of $200,000. The brothers chose attached houses, as at their Stafford Lawns in Forest Hills, after Alvin Wolosoff argued in November 1930 that attached homes gave more privacy than small detached ones with windows facing the neighbors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
No. 116-43 is one half of a Storybook pair sharing a round-arched vestibule
No. 116-43 is one of four paired house types on each side of 227th Street, built with a shared brick-and-stucco vestibule with a narrow niche and stone trim over round-arched doorways. It keeps its leaded-glass transom sashes with colored diamond panes, textured stucco with scattered brick on the second story, a slate parapet and a corbeled chimney shared with No. 116-41. Its rear garage, shared with No. 116-45, is classed as non-contributing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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