Maple Court

35-21 81st Street | also 35-27 81st Street | Jackson Heights | built 1930

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

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1930
Polkmore Construction builds Maple Court to a design by John M. Ricca
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Polkmore Construction Corp. developed Maple Court at 35-21 to 35-27 81st Street in 1930 under permit No. 1957-1930. John M. Ricca of the firm Ricca & Ungaleider designed the six-story-and-basement building for a mid-block site, with two recessed lightcourts dividing the street front; each court holds an entrance framed in white cast stone under a zigzag pediment.
“Built in 1930 to designs by John M. Ricca of the firm of Ricca & Ungaleider, Maple Court…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
Maple Court is one of the few Art Deco apartment houses in the Jackson Heights district
The landmarks report names Maple Court, along with Andrew Thomas's Dunolly Gardens of 1939, as the most notable of the less common inter-war buildings in the district that turned toward modern styles like Art Deco and Moderne. Maple Court is the more modest of the two, its Art Deco expressed through decorative brick piers and cast-stone trim in geometric shapes.
“The two most notable examples are Maple Court (1930, Ricca & Ungaleider) on 81st Street, and Dunolly Gardens (1939)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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