35-14 88th Street
Jackson Heights | built 1926
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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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- 1925
Developer V. Scuderi builds 35-14 88th Street to designs by Robert Tappan
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35-14 88th Street is one of twenty three-story brick houses that developer V. Scuderi built in 1925-26 along 88th Street's western blockfront from 35th to 37th Avenue, filed under new-building application 8873 of 1925. Architect Robert Tappan designed the group. It backs onto C.F. McAvoy's houses on the east side of 87th Street, and the two rows share a planned block interior where paired garages, one for each house, line a common driveway.
“Built in 1925-26 to designs by Robert Tappan, this group of twenty houses... Developer: V. Scuderi…”
- 1925
Robert Tappan, an architect concerned with affordable housing, designs his second Jackson Heights row here
Robert Tappan, who lived for many years in Forest Hills, was known as a housing innovator who backed prefabrication and steel-frame construction for small houses. Early in his career he won first prize in a 1917 American Architect competition for a house costing no more than $5,500. After his first Jackson Heights row, on the east side of 87th Street in 1925, he designed this row on the west side of 88th Street, built in 1925-26.
“Tappan's second row was built in 1925-26 on the west side of 88th Street between 35th and 37th Avenues…”
- 1926
35-14 88th Street keeps the neo-Georgian look of Tappan's mirror-image row
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35-14 88th Street is the projecting end house of the first eight-house cluster, finished with a front-facing gable that frames the group like a pavilion; its side wall is visible from the street. The row's neo-Georgian details include patterned brick with white trim, steep slate roofs with prominent gables, shed dormers, pent-roofed entrance porches and arched door surrounds with fanlight transoms. Most of the original eight-over-eight wood windows remain behind storm sash.
“The long "A" clusters have projecting end units with front-facing gables which flank six houses with pitched roofs and paired entrance porches…”
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