34-35 87th Street

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1925
34-35 closes the middle cluster of Tappan's 1925 row on 87th Street
Robert Tappan designed this house for the Queensboro Corporation in 1925 as the last of four, with Nos. 34-27, 34-29 and 34-33, filed under permit NB 126-1925 at the center of a sixteen-house row. The four are arranged symmetrically, two to each shared gabled section holding their front doors. Each house has a front garden, and its garage stands at the rear in a pair, reached by a shared driveway entered at either end of the blockfront.
“Built in 1925 to designs by Robert Tappan, this group of sixteen houses is characteristic of many similar groups…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
With Varrone's 88th Street row, this house's group forms a complete planned block
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A year after Tappan's 1925 row went up here, C.L. Varrone designed the houses backing onto it from 88th Street. His row imitated Tappan's design but put Spanish-tile roofs on its English-style houses. The two rows together fill a whole block, sharing a mews for automobiles in the interior lined with symmetrically placed garages built in the same style as the houses.
“The row of houses on the other side of the block, facing 88th Street, was constructed in the following year to designs by C.L. Varrone…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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