Jackson Heights Library
35-51 81st Street | Jackson Heights | built 1952
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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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- 1937
A neo-Georgian library for Jackson Heights is proposed but never built
From the 1920s, when Jackson Heights got its first library, the branch moved among temporary rooms in storefronts along 37th Avenue. In 1937 a neo-Georgian library building designed by Sidney L. Strauss was proposed, but it was never built; the branch's own building on 81st Street came only in 1949-52.
- 1952
S. Keller's International Style building for the Jackson Heights branch library is completed
Built by the City of New York between 1949 and 1952 to designs by S. Keller, the branch is a two-story building in the International Style. The flat-roofed cast-stone and glass building is asymmetrical: a long north wing with banks of aluminum-framed windows, and a box-shaped entry pavilion at the south end topped by raised metal letters naming the library.
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