34-26 87th Street
Jackson Heights | built 1926
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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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- 1926
The house anchors the center of Tappan's row as half of its steep-gabled middle pair
Listed as 34-26 to 34-32 87th Street, the house was filed in 1926 with 34-34 under new-building application NB 483-1926. Together they form the central "C" pair of Robert Tappan's symmetrical A-B-C-B-A row: a gabled roof with end chimneys, a shared projecting porch under a steep gable with the doors at its sides and arched windows on the side facades.
- 1926
Tappan designs the house as half of a double house in a block set around gardens
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Robert Tappan designed the house in 1926 as one of ten on 87th Street, matched by ten more on 86th Street. Following the McAvoy houses elsewhere on 87th Street, he grouped them as semi-detached pairs rather than long rows, so each pair suggests a single large house with two front doors and two garages. The inside of the block became a large green area of individual gardens.
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