35-15 87th Street

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

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1925
C.F. McAvoy designs an eighteen-house Garden Home row including this house
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C.F. McAvoy designed this house, built in 1925, for the Queensboro Corporation, filed with Nos. 35-17, 35-19 and 35-21 under permit NB 100-1925. The eighteen houses are arranged as two five-house clusters with a four-house cluster at each end, in red brick with white trim, steep slate roofs, wood shutters and varied doorways. Paired garages at the back share a planned block interior with Robert Tappan's houses on 88th Street.
“Built in 1925 to designs by C.F. McAvoy, this group of eighteen houses is characteristic of many similar groups…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
The McAvoy brothers, housing innovators, design their second Jackson Heights row
Brothers Charles F. and Daniel E. McAvoy built homes in Queens and Nassau County, and this 1925 group was their second on 87th Street, built north of their first row of 1924. Daniel McAvoy worked on prefabricated houses from 1917, a scheme Miami adopted in 1926, led the Queensboro Plaza Association in the 1920s, and during the Depression worked against home foreclosures as the Home Mortgage Advisory Board's secretary.
“In the following year, the McAvoys designed a similar group of eighteen houses further north on 87th Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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