34-28 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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- 1924
Queensboro Corporation shifts from garden apartments to garden homes like this one
From 1924 to 1929 the Queensboro Corporation, which developed Jackson Heights, moved from garden apartment complexes to attached and semi-detached houses, some of them convertible to two families. The plans drew on the English Garden City movement and paired period styles with open layouts and space for cars. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts Jackson Heights among the city's earliest communities planned for the automobile, as this house's rear garage shows.
- 1927
Robert Tappan's 1927 design for the Queensboro Corporation places 34-28 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 34-24, 34-26 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.
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- 34-26 85th Street1 entry
- 34-30 85th Street2 entries
- 34-24 85th Street2 entries
- 34-34 85th Street2 entries
- 34-20 85th Street2 entries
- 34-36 85th Street1 entry