34-39 86th Street

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1926
Queensboro Corporation builds the house as it shifts from apartments to single-family homes
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Between 1924 and 1929 the Queensboro Corporation, which had pioneered block-plan garden apartment complexes in Jackson Heights, turned to attached and semi-detached houses, some of them convertible to two-family use. Their planning drew on the English Garden City movement, pairing historical styles with open layouts and amenities suited to the automobile age. Robert Tappan and the brothers Charles F. and Daniel E. McAvoy designed the majority of the district's houses.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
Robert Tappan's neo-Georgian double house with No. 34-43 is completed
No. 34-39 forms one half of a three-story double house with No. 34-43, built in 1926-27 for the Queensboro Corporation under permit NB 12295-1926. As one of the row's "B" pairs it has a hipped slate roof with one chimney in the middle and two separate entrance porches topped by segmental pediments. The two halves mirror each other, and each has an attached garage reached by a driveway shared with the next pair.
“The "B" pairs have hipped roofs with a chimney at the center and separate entrance porches with segmental pediments.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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