34-44 88th Street

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1926
34-44 88th Street gets bracketed window hoods that mark the row's "c" houses
In C.L. Varrone's 1925-26 row on 88th Street, the "c" houses at the middle of each six-house cluster have bracketed hoods over their windows, which together with the Spanish tile roofs give the mostly neo-Georgian design a Mediterranean air. This house is the first of the two "c" units in the cluster numbered 34-38 to 34-50. The landmarks report notes that one other "c" house, No. 34-20, has lost its hood.
“…their Spanish tile roofs and bracketed window hoods ("c" houses) are more Mediterranean in inspiration…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
34-44 88th Street rises as Varrone's answer to Robert Tappan's row on 87th Street
Robert Tappan's first Jackson Heights group, sixteen brick houses on the east side of 87th Street, went up in 1925; the row that includes this house, facing 88th Street on the other side of the block, followed a year later to designs by C.L. Varrone. Varrone imitated Tappan's English-inspired ornament but added Spanish tile roofs. The two rows share an interior automobile mews with garages that echo the houses' design.
“This group mimics the slightly earlier Tappan design, but with the addition of Spanish-tile roofs to otherwise English-inspired ornament.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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