34-31 84th 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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- 1927
Queensboro Corporation builds the house to Robert Tappan's design
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Queensboro Corp. put up this house in 1927 as one of thirty-two attached and semi-detached homes that Robert Tappan designed for the east side of 84th Street and, back to back with them, the west side of 85th Street. It was filed under one permit, NB 2938-1927, with Nos. 34-23, 34-25 and 34-27; the whole group is laid out as eight back-to-back clusters of four houses, four clusters per street.
- 1927
Forest Hills architect Robert Tappan, a housing innovator, designs the house
Robert Tappan (1883/84-1961), who designed this house, did much of his work in Queens and lived for many years in Forest Hills. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report calls him an innovator in both planning and structure, who argued for prefabricated small houses and promoted steel-frame construction, then tied mainly to skyscrapers, for homes.
- 1993
Tappan's 84th Street houses join the Jackson Heights Historic District
This house became part of the Jackson Heights Historic District when the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated it in a report dated October 19, 1993. The commission held that Jackson Heights had drawn national and international interest as a center of new housing ideas when it was being built.
“…the Landmarks Preservation Commission designates as a Historic District the Jackson Heights Historic District in the Borough of Queens…”
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