The Chateau

34-37 80th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1922

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1. 1922

   34-37 80th Street goes up as one of the Chateau's five- and six-story buildings

   Permit NB 556-1922 covered this building, part of the Queensboro Corporation's Chateau. Each blockfront of six buildings runs in an A-B-C-C-B-A pattern: the end buildings combine a five-story center with a six-story wing and a corner tower, the B buildings are symmetrical five-story blocks with flush fronts, and the two C buildings in the middle mirror each other with slightly projecting sections.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1922

   The Chateau keeps its iron-grilled glass doors and wood windows from 1922

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   The Chateau's entrances are stone portals flanked by small decorative columns and topped by hoods, holding glass doors behind ornamental iron grilles in segmental-arched openings. When the commission surveyed the complex for the 1993 district report, every original door was still in place, as were nearly all of the four-over-four wood windows and most of the multi-pane casements in the corner towers.

   “The segmentally-arched door openings contain glass doors with decorative iron grilles. All of the original doors survive…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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