Colonial Apartments
34-47 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1916
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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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- 1915
George H. Wells designs 34-47 82nd Street as one of the six Colonial Apartments
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The five-story walk-up at 34-47 82nd Street (tax lot 1443/49) belongs to the Colonial Apartments, six matching buildings put up in 1915-16 from plans by architect George H. Wells. The Roosevelt Ave. Building Co. Inc. was the developer, filing a single new-building application (NB 4323-1915) for the whole row. Like Wells's other early complexes, it went up close to the streetcar stop at 82nd Street and Northern Boulevard.
“The Colonial Apartments, built in 1915-16, comprise one of the early apartment building complexes in Jackson Heights designed by George H. Wells.”
- 1916
The Colonial Apartments' repeated entrances lead toward Wells's later garden-apartment facades
The landmarks report calls this row a major step toward George H. Wells's preferred facade scheme for his later block-plan garden apartments. The complex reads as six identical buildings, each with its own entry, and the repetition of those elements gives the blockfront a steady rhythm.
“The Colonial Apartments suggest six identical buildings, each with a separate entryway, which display a rhythm of repeated architectural elements…”
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