The Chateau

34-21 80th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1922

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1. 1922

   Andrew J. Thomas, a self-taught former rent collector, designs the Chateau

   The Chateau's architect, Andrew Jackson Thomas (1875-1965), was born in lower Manhattan to a diamond broker and lost both parents at 13. He worked in the Yukon gold fields and collected rents in Columbus Avenue tenements before teaching himself architecture as a builder's timekeeper. He is credited with developing the garden apartment, and one of his apartment plans became a model for later state and federal housing programs.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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