35-37 86th Street

Jackson Heights | built 1927

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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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  1. 1927

    Charles Stidolph designs 35-37 86th Street as a detached brick house for developer C. McShane

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    Queens architect Charles Stidolph designed this three-story brick house, filed as New Building 20023 in 1926 and built in 1926-27 for the developer C. McShane. It was one of twelve houses in three alternating models, mixing neo-Georgian brick and end chimneys with red Mediterranean roof tiles. This one has side-facing jerkin-head gables, a large dormer on the front, and an entrance porch that juts out past the sun porch, the same model as No. 35-49. A matching brick garage with a tile roof stands behind it.

    “…located on the east side of 86th Street between 35th and 37th Avenues, survive from a group of twelve houses built in 1927 to designs by Queens architect Charles Stidolph…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1993

    35-37 86th Street is landmarked as one of six survivors of Stidolph's twelve detached houses

    When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Jackson Heights Historic District in 1993, this house was one of only six left of the twelve that Charles Stidolph had designed for the block. The commission noted that these six were the only detached single-family houses in the whole district, though they resembled its many attached and semi-detached 1920s groups.

    “Although the only examples of detached single-family houses within the historic district, they are similar to the many groups of attached and semi-detached houses…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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