Belvedere Gardens West

35-15 84th Street | also 35-16 85th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1940

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

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1939
Rosene Holding Corp. builds Belvedere Gardens West and East back to back through the block
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Belvedere Gardens West on 84th Street and its twin, Belvedere Gardens East on 85th Street, were built in 1939-40 for the Rosene Holding Corp. to designs by Seelig & Finkelstein. The two identical six-story buildings sit back to back on a lot running through the block, each fronted by a recessed entrance court that doubles as a lightcourt. Behind them is a garden shared by both buildings and by the larger Belvedere Apartments just north of them, facing 35th Avenue.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
Belvedere Gardens West gets a neo-Georgian brick front with Palladian windows and balustrades
Seelig & Finkelstein dressed the brick facade of Belvedere Gardens West in neo-Georgian detail: brickwork patterned to suggest quoins, modillioned band courses and Palladian heads on the top-floor windows. Along the roofline are notched gables and balustraded parapets. The entrance portico has applied pilasters and an entablature, and the doorway has a scrolled pediment and a leaded transom.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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