34-31 86th 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.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1926
Robert Tappan plans the house as part of a through-the-block complex on 86th and 87th streets
In 1926-27 architect Robert Tappan designed a through-the-block complex of houses facing both 86th and 87th streets between 34th and 35th avenues. Rather than long rows, each blockfront got ten houses in five semi-detached pairs, each pair massed to read as one larger freestanding house with two entrances and two attached garages. The middle of the block was left as a broad green space divided into private gardens.
- 1927
Robert Tappan's neo-Georgian double house with No. 34-35 is completed
No. 34-31 is one half of a three-story double house shared with No. 34-35, filed under permit NB 12296-1926 and finished in 1926-27 for the Queensboro Corporation. It is one of the row's "A" pairs: a gabled slate roof with chimneys at each end and a single hipped-roof porch at the center, where the two front doors open to either side. Red brick with white trim, brickwork suggesting quoins and wooden shutters give it a neo-Georgian character.
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