Colonial Apartments
34-31 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1916
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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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- 1916
Wells turns from Edwardian styling to neo-Georgian at the Colonial Apartments
The landmarks report treats the Colonial Apartments as a turning point for George H. Wells. His other early 82nd Street groups borrowed a simplified Edwardian English classicism, but here he chose red brick with white stone keystones, swagged panels and balustraded parapets in a neo-Georgian manner, framing each entrance as a round-arched doorway inside a portico. Neo-Georgian became one of several historically based styles that would mark most of Jackson Heights's buildings over the following decades.
“In ornamental style, as well, the Colonial Apartments mark a change in approach: Wells abandoned the Edwardian fashion in favor of the neo-Georgian…”
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