34-20 88th Street

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

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1926
C.L. Varrone gives No. 34-20 a bracketed window hood as a center house of its cluster
Built in 1925-26 for the developer Burnetti & Corrizzi, No. 34-20 is one of the "c" houses at the center of C.L. Varrone's six-house cluster on 88th Street, filed as NB 19444-1925. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that the "c" houses carried bracketed window hoods, a Mediterranean touch on otherwise neo-Georgian red brick fronts. All the houses had projecting entrance porches and small front gardens.
“…their Spanish tile roofs and bracketed window hoods ("c" houses) are more Mediterranean in inspiration. No. 34-20 has lost its bracketed window hood.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
Landmarks surveyors find No. 34-20 is the one house in its row missing its window hood
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Surveying the 88th Street row for the Jackson Heights Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission found that most original windows survived, though entry doors and garage doors had been replaced and fences added to some front gardens. No. 34-20 was the one house it singled out: its bracketed window hood was gone.
“Alterations include the replacement of entry doors and garage doors, although many of these features, as well as most of the original windows, remain. No. 34-20 has lost its bracketed window hood.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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