Elm Court
34-28 80th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1922
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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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- 1921
George H. Wells designs Elm Court, with 34-28 80th Street among its eight garden apartment buildings
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Permit NB 6082-1921 covered this building and its neighbor at 34-36. Elm Court, designed by Wells and built in 1921-22 for the Jackson Heights Apartment Corporation, consists of eight four-story buildings with basements, four on 79th Street and four on 80th, set back to back across a wide shared garden. The commission counts it among the typical garden apartment groups of Jackson Heights.
“Elm Court, built in 1921-22 and designed by George H. Wells, is one of the characteristic garden apartment projects…”
- 1921
Metropolitan Life lends Queensboro over $1.4 million to build Elm, Hawthorne and Laburnum Courts
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In 1921 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company lent the Queensboro Corporation more than $1,400,000 to build Elm Court together with Hawthorne Court and Laburnum Court. The insurer had lobbied for a 1922 state law letting insurance companies invest in housing, and by the following year its loans to Queensboro came to nearly $8,000,000.
“In 1921, it had loaned over $1,400,000 to the Corporation for the construction of Elm, Hawthorne, and Laburnum Courts…”
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