34-47 84th 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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- 1927
Tappan arranges the house in a mirror-image cluster so that four homes read as one larger building
Robert Tappan laid out each four-house cluster on this block in a mirror-image a-b-b-a sequence, so the group looks like a single large house. The four clusters along 84th Street repeat the trick at a bigger scale in an A-B-B-A order, tying the whole blockfront into one design. In the A clusters, an a house and a b house share one projecting gabled section that holds both of their front doors.
- 1993
Landmarks report finds the Tappan houses nearly unaltered, with most original wood sash windows in place
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When the Jackson Heights Historic District was designated, the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the 1927 Tappan houses on 84th and 85th streets as remarkably intact. Nearly all of their first wood sash windows, in six-over-six and eight-over-eight patterns, survived, along with many paneled and glazed wood doors. The main changes noted were storm windows and storm doors added to many of the houses.
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