Willow Court
35-45 82nd Street | Jackson Heights | built 1915
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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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- 1915
George H. Wells designs Willow Court as a pair of five-story Edwardian apartment houses
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Willow Court went up in 1915 for the Roosevelt Ave. Bldg. Co. as two identical five-story-and-basement buildings; this one, No. 35-45, was filed under new-building permit 1865-1915. George H. Wells faced them in Roman brick over a stone base, with big bracketed pediments over the doors, modillioned cornices and arcaded parapets. Deep side lightcourts kept the buildings to 58 percent of their lots, well under the 70 percent the law then allowed.
“…planned to occupy only 58 percent of their lots, as opposed to the more common 70 percent then allowed by law…”
- 1916
Real estate press hails Willow Court for leaving 42 percent of its lot open to light and air
A Real Estate Record & Guide article of March 25, 1916 described the new Plymouth Apartments and Willow Court as a model for Queens, built far beyond what the Tenement House Law required. Instead of covering the 70 percent of the lot the law allowed, they covered 58 percent, leaving 42 percent for light and air courts, a margin the writer said would bankrupt builders in Manhattan. The landmarks report counts these two projects as a key step toward Queensboro's garden apartments.
“…occupy only 58 per cent. of the lot area, leaving an additional 12 per cent, or a total of 42 per cent, for light and air courts…”
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