34-45 87th Street

Jackson Heights | built 1925

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1926

    A matching row on 88th Street completes this house's planned block

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    A year after Tappan's row went up, C.L. Varrone designed the houses backing onto it from 88th Street, copying Tappan's scheme but adding Spanish-tile roofs. The commission's report says the two rows together form a whole block, with automobile mews and symmetrically placed garages in the interior, and calls the planned block that results typical of the Queensboro Corporation's best work.

    “The row of houses on the other side of the block, facing 88th Street, was constructed in the following year to designs by C.L. Varrone…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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