Monroe House

35-21 79th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1947

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

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1947
William Hohauser designs Monroe House, a postwar apartment building on 79th Street
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Monroe House at 35-21 79th Street was built in 1947-48 for the Apartment Building Corporation to designs by architect William Hohauser. Rising six stories over a basement, it is one of several apartment houses added to Jackson Heights after World War II. It fills a mid-block site, with two lightcourts dividing its long front into three sections, and its restrained Georgian trim is limited to stone stringcourses, a decorative brick band and small stone plaques at the parapet.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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