Plymouth Houses

34-52 84th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1929

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

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1928
Plymouth Engineering Corp. builds the 30 Plymouth Houses to Pierce L. Kiesewetter's designs
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This house is one of the Plymouth Houses, a group of 30 homes built in 1928-29 by the Plymouth Engineering Corp. to designs by Pierce L. Kiesewetter. The houses stand back to back on the 83rd and 84th Street blockfronts between 34th and 35th Avenues, fifteen per street in three clusters of five. Each house has a garage in its rear basement, reached by driveways that enter and leave at the two ends of the blockfront.
“Built in 1928-29 to designs by Pierce L. Kiesewetter, the Plymouth Houses are characteristic of many similar groups…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
Landmarks report describes the neo-Tudor Plymouth Houses and their later alterations
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The 1993 Jackson Heights Historic District report describes the Plymouth Houses as neo-Tudor brick houses trimmed in cast stone, stucco and wood, with oriels, battlements, half-timbering, dormers, gable-end chimneys and clay tile roofs. Many of the original multi-pane wood windows and wood doors were still in place. Changes over the decades included new doors, aluminum siding on parts of some facades, through-the-wall air conditioners, rebuilt garden retaining walls and replaced clay tile roofs.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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