Laurel Court

33-21 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1914

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1914
George H. Wells designs Laurel Court while still working for Cass Gilbert
Laurel Court was the first Jackson Heights project of George Henry Wells, who had joined Cass Gilbert's office in 1900 and was still there when he drew these buildings in 1914. He opened his own practice the next year and spent the following decade designing apartment houses for the Queensboro Corporation. Apart from 1917-18, when he lived in Elmhurst, Wells made his home in Mount Vernon, New York, from 1899 until 1935, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission found no record of independent work outside his Jackson Heights buildings.
“Wells was still in Gilbert's office in 1914 when he designed Laurel Court, his first project in Jackson Heights.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
No. 33-21 keeps Laurel Court's original doors and windows
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described Laurel Court for the Jackson Heights Historic District in 1993, it noted that No. 33-21 still had its wood-and-glass double doors, with transoms behind iron grilles; only one other building in the group, No. 33-11, kept such doors. No. 33-21 was also the only one of the four named for keeping its multi-pane-over-one windows. George H. Wells designed the group in 1913-14.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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