34-51 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.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1917
Robert Tappan, later this house's architect, wins a prize for a house costing at most $5,500
Robert Tappan (1883/84-1961), who designed this row in 1927, did much of his work in Queens and lived for many years in Forest Hills. He was known as a housing innovator who pushed prefabrication for small houses and steel-frame construction, then associated mainly with skyscrapers. Early in his career, in 1917, he won first prize in an American Architect competition for a house that could cost no more than $5,500.
- 1927
Tappan gives the 84th Street houses red brick, white trim and slate roofs in a neo-Georgian style
Built in 1927 as part of Robert Tappan's 32-house group for the Queensboro Corporation, this house has a red brick front trimmed in white. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report lists the neo-Georgian features shared across the group: slate gable roofs with dormers set singly or in pairs, round-arched doorways with fanlights on some models, classical white wood porches or pediments on others, brick quoins and prominent chimneys. The side and rear walls repeat the treatment of the fronts.
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