34-20 84th Street

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1928
Plymouth Engineering Corp. builds 34-20 84th Street as one of the 30 Plymouth Houses
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Plymouth Engineering Corp. put up this house in 1928-29 from designs by architect Pierce L. Kiesewetter, filing one permit (NB 3517-1928) for it and the neighboring houses at 34-16, 34-22, 34-24 and 34-26 84th Street. The 30 Plymouth Houses fill the block bounded by 34th and 35th avenues, back to back facing 83rd and 84th streets, fifteen to a blockfront in three groups of five. Every house has a garage in the back of its basement, reached by driveways that run in and out at the ends of the block.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
Landmarks report notes the neo-Tudor details and later changes at the Plymouth Houses
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1993 report on the Jackson Heights Historic District, which takes in this house, classed the Plymouth Houses as neo-Tudor: faced in brick and trimmed in cast stone, stucco and wood, with oriels, battlements, half-timbering, dormers and clay tile roofs. Many of the original multi-pane wood windows and wood doors were still in place. Across the group, it listed replaced doors and tile roofs, aluminum siding on parts of some fronts, air conditioners set through the walls, and rebuilt retaining walls in the front gardens.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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