Hawthorne Court
35-49 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
Metropolitan Life's 1921 loan helps fund construction of Hawthorne Court
Hawthorne Court was one of three Queensboro Corporation complexes, with Elm and Laburnum Courts, built with a loan of over $1,400,000 that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company made in 1921. Met Life was among Queensboro's important financial backers, and its total lending to the company reached almost $8,000,000 by 1922. It had also pushed for the 1922 change in the state insurance code that opened housing to investment by insurers.
“In 1921, it had loaned over $1,400,000 to the Corporation for the construction of Elm, Hawthorne, and Laburnum Courts.”
- 1921
Hawthorne Court follows Linden Court's plan of two long rows around a shared interior garden
George H. Wells designed five garden apartment blocks in Jackson Heights after Linden Court: Hampton Court (1919-21), Hawthorne, Elm and Laburnum Courts (1921-22) and Cambridge Court (1922). All five use red brick with stone trim drawn from Georgian models. Hawthorne, like Hampton and Cambridge, is laid out as two long rows of shallow attached buildings around a garden in the middle of the block, following the block plan Andrew J. Thomas had worked out at Linden Court.
- 1922
35-49 76th Street is completed in Hawthorne Court and keeps many of its original wood windows
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Built in 1921-22 under permit NB 7553-1921, this is one of the fourteen five-story buildings of Hawthorne Court, designed by George H. Wells for Queensboro Apt. Inc. It shares the complex's neo-Georgian dress of Flemish-bond brick, stone trim and an entrance portico with a short stoop. The landmarks report lists it among the six buildings that still have many of their original six-over-one wooden windows.
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