34-47 86th 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
Robert Tappan designs No. 34-47 as half of a neo-Georgian double house for Queensboro Corp.
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No. 34-47 and its partner No. 34-51 form one of five double houses on the east side of 86th Street between 34th and 35th Avenues, built in 1926-27 for the developer Queensboro Corp. to plans by architect Robert Tappan. The two halves are mirror images in red brick with white trim, and each has its own garage at the side, reached by a short driveway shared with the next pair. Tappan designed a nearly identical group of double houses at the same time on the 87th Street side, so the two groups back onto each other across the block, with private gardens behind and front gardens on the street.
“Built in 1926-27 to designs by Robert Tappan, this group of ten houses is characteristic of many similar groups…”
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