35-36 87th Street

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

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1926
C.F. & D.E. McAvoy design 35-36 87th Street as half of a neo-Tudor double house
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Filed under permit NB 443-1926 with its partner at No. 35-34, the house is one of seven double houses on the west side of 87th Street, with the Queensboro Corporation and James McDougall listed as owners. The report calls the row mainly neo-Tudor, citing steep shingled roofs, half-timbering, drip moldings over the doors and bracketed flower boxes. Behind the pairs, brick garages with slate roofs, one per house, are reached by a narrow shared driveway.
“Built in 1926 to designs by C.F. & D.E. McAvoy, this group of fourteen houses…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Brothers Charles F. and Daniel E. McAvoy turn from long rows to double houses with the group holding 35-36
Charles F. and Daniel E. McAvoy built homes from early in the century until the Depression, mostly in Queens neighborhoods such as Forest Hills and Jackson Heights, and also in Nassau County. After rows of twenty houses in 1924 and eighteen in 1925 on 87th Street, their third Jackson Heights group, put up in 1926 opposite the second, was made up of seven double houses, each pair treated as one design. Daniel McAvoy had been working on prefabricated housing since 1917, and Miami adopted his McAvoy plan in 1926 to ease a housing shortage.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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