34-43 86th Street
Jackson Heights | built 1927
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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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- 1926
Robert Tappan plans the house as part of a through-the-block complex on 86th and 87th streets
In 1926-27 architect Robert Tappan designed a through-the-block complex of houses facing both 86th and 87th streets between 34th and 35th avenues. Rather than long rows, each blockfront got ten houses in five semi-detached pairs, each pair massed to read as one larger freestanding house with two entrances and two attached garages. The middle of the block was left as a broad green space divided into private gardens.
- 1927
Robert Tappan's neo-Georgian double house with No. 34-39 is completed
No. 34-43 forms one half of a three-story double house with No. 34-39, 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.”
- 1993
Landmarks survey finds most of the row's original windows still in place
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described Tappan's ten houses for the 1993 historic district report, the main changes it recorded were new front doors and garage doors. Many original doors, and most of the original multi-pane windows, were still there. Each house still had a front garden and its own garden at the rear.
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