34-22 87th Street

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1926
The house and 34-24 form a hip-roofed double house with separate pedimented porches
Robert Tappan's 1926 plans paired this house with 34-24 87th Street under new-building application NB 1045-1926. The two make up one of the "B" pairs in the row, designed as mirror images beneath a hipped slate roof with a chimney at the center, each house entered through its own porch topped by a segmental pediment. Alternating these hipped pairs with gabled ones gives the five double houses on the blockfront their varied rhythm.
“The "B" pairs have hipped roofs with a chimney at the center and separate entrance porches with segmental pediments.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Tappan builds the house back-to-back with a nearly identical group on 86th Street
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The house is one of ten semi-detached houses that Robert Tappan designed for the Queensboro Corporation in 1926 along 87th Street's western blockfront from 34th to 35th Avenue. Directly behind it stands a very similar group of five double houses at 34-15 to 34-51 86th Street, also by Tappan and built at about the same time. Each house has a front garden and its own garden at the rear.
“These houses are very similar to the five double houses at 34-15-34-51 86th Street which were also designed by Tappan…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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