Mount Vernon Apartments

34-31 81st Street | Jackson Heights | built 1936

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1935
Developer Morris Goetz builds the Mount Vernon Apartments to a Cohn Brothers design
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Morris Goetz developed the Mount Vernon Apartments at 34-31 81st Street, filing new-building permit No. 4631 in 1935; the Cohn Brothers designed it and it was finished in 1936. Six stories over a basement on a mid-block lot, it belongs to the later wave of Jackson Heights apartment houses, with two recessed lightcourts splitting its long front into three sections, the middle one widest.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1936
Mount Vernon Apartments wears red-brick neo-Georgian dress with an applied colonnade
The Cohn Brothers faced the Mount Vernon in red brick with white trim, in the neo-Georgian manner the firm used on several nearby buildings. Its details include brick quoins, a giant engaged colonnade across the upper floors of the center section, three-sided oriels, Palladian-style windows and a pitched roof with gabled dormers. By 1993 the entrance had been altered, top-floor balconettes removed and a chimney extension taken off the south gable.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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