The Chateau

34-29 80th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1922

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1922
Queensboro plans the Chateau around a block-long inner garden, with 34-29 80th Street among its twelve buildings
A Thomas plan for the Chateau, drawn about 1921-22, shows the inner garden filling the middle of the block. The commission described such gardens as the heart of Queensboro's block plan, laid out with the same care as the buildings and drawing on Italian Renaissance, French Beaux-Arts and English Romantic landscape traditions.
“…the expansive interior gardens which were quite literally the centerpiece of the Queensboro Corporation's block-plan concept [Fig. 24]…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1922
The Chateau follows Thomas's Linden Court plan of shared gardens and cooperative ownership
The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites the Chateau of 1922, whose buildings line 80th and 81st Streets below 34th Avenue on the south, as a leading example of the block plan Andrew J. Thomas first used at Linden Court, along with the Towers of 1923 on the block just north. Under that plan buildings ring a common inner garden, and the Queensboro Corporation reinforced the sense of community in 1919 by offering cooperative ownership of its garden apartment buildings.
“Other notable examples of this type of block treatment designed by Thomas include the Chateau (1922), on 80th and 81st streets…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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