Elm Court
34-41 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
Queensboro starts Elm Court in a run of tax-exempt yearly building campaigns
Elm Court belonged to the Queensboro Corporation's string of yearly garden apartment projects; George H. Wells began it in 1921 along with Hawthorne Court and Laburnum Court. The commission links these annual campaigns to state laws of 1920 and 1923 that granted ten-year real estate tax exemptions on new construction. Most of the corporation's buildings of this period were sold under its cooperative ownership plan.
- 1993
The landmarks commission finds Elm Court's original doors and windows intact
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1993 report on the Jackson Heights Historic District lists this building, filed under permit NB 6079-1921 with Nos. 34-43 to 34-49, as part of Elm Court. It found every original entrance in the complex surviving, with wood-and-glass doors set in openings with leaded-glass elliptical fanlights and sidelights, along with the original six-over-one double-hung wood windows.
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