34-43 87th Street

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1925
Robert Tappan designs this house as part of a sixteen-house Queensboro row
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The Queensboro Corporation built this red-brick house in 1925 to plans by architect Robert Tappan. It belongs to the six-house cluster at Nos. 34-39 to 34-49, filed under permit NB 127-1925, one of two such clusters framing a central group of four. Each house got a garage at the back, reached by a shared driveway that enters and leaves at the ends of the block.
“Built in 1925 to designs by Robert Tappan, this group of sixteen houses is characteristic of many similar groups…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Robert Tappan starts his Jackson Heights work with this row of houses
According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the row along this side of 87th Street was the first group of houses Robert Tappan built in Jackson Heights. Tappan had been concerned with affordable housing since early in his career, and in 1917 he took first prize in an American Architect competition for a house meant to cost no more than $5,500.
“Tappan's first group of houses in Jackson Heights is the row on the east side of 87th Street between 34th and 35th avenues, built in 1925.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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