34-30 88th Street

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1925
C.L. Varrone designs 34-30 88th Street as part of a seventeen-house row
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The house went up in 1925-26 as one of seventeen two-story garden homes lining the west side of 88th Street from 34th to 35th Avenue. Burnetti & Corrizzi were the developers and C.L. Varrone the architect; the five houses from 34-28 to 34-36 were filed together under permit NB 19443 in 1925. Each house got a small front garden and its own garage behind, paired with a neighbor's along a shared rear driveway.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Varrone's row completes a planned block begun by Robert Tappan's houses on 87th Street
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report says this row was built the year after Robert Tappan's 1925 houses on the east side of 87th Street, which stand back to back with it. Varrone copied Tappan's English-inspired design but added Spanish tile roofs. The two rows share an interior motor court with garages styled like the houses, and the report counts the result among the Queensboro Corporation's best planned blocks.
“This group mimics the slightly earlier Tappan design, but with the addition of Spanish-tile roofs to otherwise English-inspired ornament.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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