Hawthorne Court
35-33 76th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1922
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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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- 1921
Wells builds Hawthorne Court as a row of identical attached buildings marked by projecting entrances
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Unlike the semi-detached buildings at Linden Court, the apartment houses in Wells's later complexes, Hawthorne Court among them, are identical and joined into continuous blockfronts. Each complex is given its character by a repeated architectural element. At Hawthorne Court and Elm Court that element is Wells's trademark projecting entrance, while at Hampton Court it is a run of angled window bays along 79th Street.
“At Hawthorne Court and Elm Court, Wells used his signature projecting entryways…”
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