Plymouth Apartments

35-20 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1916

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1916
George H. Wells designs this building as one of the four identical Plymouth Apartments
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Put up in 1916 for the Jackson Heights Apt. Corp., this brick-and-stone walk-up of five stories over a basement belongs to the four-building Plymouth Apartments complex. Its architect, George H. Wells, gave it an Edwardian treatment with bracketed cornices, parapet swags and a projecting entrance porch carried on stone Doric columns.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1916
March 25
The Real Estate Record & Guide praises the Plymouth for covering only 58 percent of its lot
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A March 1916 Real Estate Record & Guide article, "Queens A Coming Apartment Center," reported that the new Jackson Heights houses, the Plymouth and Willow Court, used just 58 percent of their lots against the 70 percent the Tenement House Law allowed, leaving 42 percent for light and air courts. The writer claimed builders who tried the same in Manhattan would go bankrupt. The Landmarks Commission later called the two projects an important point in Queensboro's development.
“…instead of occupying 70 per cent, of the lot area like most houses as is allowed by law, occupy only 58 per cent. of the lot area…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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