35-18 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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  1. 1925

    Developer V. Scuderi builds 35-18 88th Street to designs by Robert Tappan

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    35-18 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…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 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…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1926

    35-18 88th Street keeps the neo-Georgian look of Tappan's mirror-image row

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    35-18 88th Street sits inside the first eight-house cluster (35-14 to 35-28) of Tappan's row, among six houses with pitched roofs and paired entrance porches set between gabled end units. The houses mirror one another, so the doorways pair up and keep the blockfront symmetrical. Typical neo-Georgian touches include patterned brick with white trim, steep slate roofs, shed dormers, pent-roofed porches and arched door surrounds with fanlights; most of the eight-over-eight wood windows survive 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…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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