Oak Hall East

35-34 84th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1931

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

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1930
Fillmore Gardens Corp. starts Oak Hall East and West, twin Cohn Brothers apartment houses
Oak Hall East at 35-34 84th Street and Oak Hall West at 35-33 83rd Street were built back to back in 1930-31 for the Fillmore Gardens Corp. to designs by the Cohn Brothers. The identical buildings rise six stories over a basement, and each is split into two sections by a wide recessed court used both as entrance and lightcourt. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts them among the later apartment houses in the Jackson Heights Historic District.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
Oak Hall East's entrance court is guarded by stone lions in a neo-Romanesque design
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The Cohn Brothers gave Oak Hall East a neo-Romanesque brick facade with diaperwork, corbel tables and blind arches, arched windows set between stone colonnettes, balconettes, gargoyles and cartouches. At the top, square and polygonal corner towers hold arcaded loggias. Brick walls with stone pedestals flank the entry court, each pedestal carrying a stone lion, and ornate ironwork spans the gap between them.
“At each entry court, brick walls with stone pedestals support stone lions; elaborate ironwork spans the opening between the pedestals.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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