Carlton House
34-41 85th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1947
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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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- 1947
Philip Birnbaum's Carlton House rises on 85th Street with a garage beneath it
W. & H. Walker developed Carlton House, a six-story-and-basement apartment building designed by architect Philip Birnbaum; construction ran from 1946 to 1947. Lightcourts divide its long front into five sections, recalling the garden-apartment groups of the 1920s, and a parking garage runs under the building with a driveway at each end. Its late Moderne design stresses horizontal lines through deep corner and center terraces, with a metal-and-marble entrance under a geometric marquee.
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