34-19 87th Street

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1925
Robert Tappan designs the house as part of his first group of houses in Jackson Heights
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This brick house dates from 1925 and belongs to the sixteen-house row that architect Robert Tappan designed for 87th Street's eastern blockfront from 34th to 35th Avenue, the first group he did in Jackson Heights. The houses are bunched into clusters of different sizes. Their plain ornament, including brick quoins, dormers, round-arched entries and tall chimneys topped with chimneypots, draws mainly on English Georgian models.
“Tappan's first group of houses in Jackson Heights is the row on the east side of 87th Street ... built in 1925.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Tappan fronts the house with a hip-roofed porch inside a six-house cluster meant to read as one building
The house is one of the four inner "b" houses of the cluster at 34-13 to 34-23 87th Street, all covered by new-building application NB 125-1925. Tappan arranged the six as a mirror-image a-b-b-b-b-a sequence: gable-fronted houses project at each end, while the middle houses get hip-roofed entrance porches placed in alternating positions. Each house has its own garage, paired with a neighbor's at the back of the lot and reached by a driveway shared along the blockfront.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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