35-55 86th Street
Jackson Heights | built 1991
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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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- 1927
Two of Charles Stidolph's detached houses go up on this site
Before the present houses, this part of the 86th Street blockfront held two of the twelve detached single-family houses that went up in 1927 on the east side of the street between 35th and 37th Avenues, all designed by Queens architect Charles Stidolph. Both were torn down in the 1980s, and the row of three attached houses at Nos. 35-53 to 35-57 took their place, one of three such replacement groups on the block.
- 1991
Acapulco Realty Corp. completes No. 35-55 in a row of three Post-Modern brick houses
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No. 35-55 belongs to a group of three four-story brick houses built in 1988-91 under a single permit (NB 1582-1987) for the developer Acapulco Realty Corp. and designed by the firm Fakler/Eliason Associates. Their red brick fronts draw on older styles, with blind arches, pseudo-Palladian windows and roofline pediments, and each house has a garage door at street level. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts the row as one of three similar groups put up on this block of 86th Street.
- 1993
Landmarks commission finds the new 86th Street houses lack what set the old ones apart
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In its 1993 report on the new Jackson Heights Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission listed the 1980s razing of several private houses on this stretch of 86th Street, between 35th and 37th Avenues, among the district's recent losses. It judged that the attached houses built in their place met the zoning rules of the day but showed few of the features that had distinguished the homes they replaced.
“…the new attached houses erected on the sites of the demolished houses ... exhibit few of the elements that distinguished the buildings they replaced…”
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