Elm Court
34-35 79th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1922
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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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- 1921
Jackson Heights Apartment Corp. files to build this Elm Court building
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Under permit NB 6080-1921, filed together with No. 34-27, the Jackson Heights Apartment Corp. put up this building as part of Elm Court, built in 1921-22 to designs by George H. Wells. The complex runs through the block, with four attached buildings facing 79th Street and four facing 80th Street and a wide common garden between their backs. The commission described it as one of the characteristic garden apartment projects of Jackson Heights.
- 1921
Elm Court's attached buildings depart from Linden Court's semi-detached plan
Elm Court was one of five garden apartment groups George H. Wells designed after Andrew J. Thomas's Linden Court set the block-plan model. Where Linden Court's buildings were semi-detached, Wells made his identical and attached, so they form continuous blockfronts. And unlike Hampton, Hawthorne and Cambridge Courts, which frame full blocks, Elm Court occupies a smaller assemblage of lots.
“Elm and Laburnum occupy smaller assemblages and do not define full blocks.”
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