34-17 87th Street
Jackson Heights | built 1925
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1925
Robert Tappan, an architect drawn to affordable housing, designs the row that includes 34-17 87th Street
Robert Tappan, architect of this house, took an interest in the problem of affordable housing from the start of his career. In 1917 he won first prize in a competition sponsored by the magazine American Architect for a house to cost no more than $5,500. His first group of houses in Jackson Heights was this sixteen-house row on 87th Street, built in 1925.
“…won first prize in 1917 for a "Competition for a house to cost not to exceed $5,500 [sic]," sponsored by the American Architect…”
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