34-24 85th Street
Jackson Heights | built 1927
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1927
Robert Tappan's 1927 design for the Queensboro Corporation places 34-24 85th Street in a mirrored four-house cluster
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This house went up in 1927 for the developer Queensboro Corporation, filed with the city as NB 2936-1927 together with its cluster-mates at 34-26, 34-28 and 34-30 85th Street. Architect Robert Tappan grouped 32 houses on the block between 34th and 35th avenues into eight back-to-back clusters, four facing each street. Within a cluster the houses mirror one another so the four read as one larger building, and garages paired behind the houses open onto a common drive.
- 1927
Red brick, slate gables and white trim give 34-24 85th Street its neo-Georgian look
The 1993 Jackson Heights district report classes Robert Tappan's houses on this block as neo-Georgian, faced in red brick with white trim. Gabled slate roofs carry single and paired dormers, corners are marked by brick quoins, and big chimneys rise above the roofline. Some house models have round-arched doors with fanlights, others classical white wood porches or pediments over the door, and the side and rear walls echo the fronts.
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- 34-26 85th Street1 entry
- 34-20 85th Street2 entries
- 34-28 85th Street2 entries
- 34-30 85th Street2 entries
- 34-16 85th Street1 entry
- 34-14 85th Street1 entry