34-32 86th Street

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1927
Rogers & Haneman complete the house in an English cottage style
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No. 34-32 belongs to a group of ten two-and-a-half-story houses, five semi-detached pairs, designed by Rogers & Haneman for the Jackson Heights Apartment Corporation and finished in 1927 under permit NB 15218-1926. The firm modeled them on country cottages of rural England: tapestry brick, steep slate roofs with dormers and chimneys, entrance porches with flared sides, arched openings and multi-pane casement windows. Hipped and gabled roofs alternate along the block in a mirror-image pattern.
“Built in 1927 to designs by Rogers & Haneman, this group often houses is characteristic of many similar groups…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
The house gets a matching garage set behind it, reached by a shared driveway
Rogers & Haneman placed the group's garages in pairs at the back of the lots, between the double houses, with each pair reached by one driveway serving two neighboring houses. The garages, visible from 86th Street, copy the houses' details: relieving arches and gabled roofs laid with slate. Every house in the group also has a front garden, and sloping brick garden walls are part of the design.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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