The Chateau

34-05 80th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1922

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1. 1922

   The Queensboro Corporation builds 34-01-34-05 80th Street as part of Andrew J. Thomas's Chateau

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   Permit NB 567-1922 covered this building, one of twelve that make up the Chateau, a garden apartment complex the Queensboro Corporation built in 1922 on 80th and 81st Streets just south of 34th Avenue. Thomas set six freestanding U-shaped buildings on each side of the block, back to back across a long shared garden, with brick walls and iron gates closing the gaps between them.

   “The Chateau, built in 1922 to designs by Andrew J. Thomas, is one of the Queensboro Corporation's early garden apartment complexes…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1922

   Slate mansards and patterned brick give the Chateau a look borrowed from Henri IV's France

   The Chateau draws on French Renaissance architecture, and one description likened it to building under Henri IV of France. Its features include steep slate mansard roofs with dormers and finials, brick laid in Flemish bond, patterned diaperwork on the corner towers of the end buildings, decorated chimneys, and stone doorways framed by small decorative columns and hoods. The commission found that the original doors all survive.

   “…reminiscent of die architecture of Henri IV of France…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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