Georgian Hall
35-64 84th Street | also 83-25 37th Avenue, 83-13 37th Avenue, 83-07 37th Avenue | Jackson Heights | built 1931
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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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- 1930
E. Adelsohn designs Georgian Hall for the Queensboro Investing Co.
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The Queensboro Investing Co. filed plans in 1930 (New Building 1386) for Georgian Hall, a six-story apartment house by E. Adelsohn on the 37th Avenue end of the block between 83rd and 84th streets; it was finished in 1931. A recessed lightcourt with an entrance splits each side-street front in two, while a one-story row of stores runs along the avenue. The red brick walls carry white stone trim, tall brick pilasters, swags and urn-topped balustrades in a neo-Georgian manner.
- 1931
Georgian Hall's name follows a 1930s fashion for colonial-sounding apartment names
The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls Georgian Hall, completed in 1931, a typical neo-Georgian apartment house of its period in Jackson Heights, one whose name announces its style. Other 1930s buildings in the district took similar names, such as Georgian Gardens and Colonial Arms, or more indirect ones like Mt. Vernon, Jefferson Hall and The Litchfield. On 37th Avenue, two giant brick temple fronts with stone trim mark the facade above a one-story wing of shops.
“The symbolism of the style is reflected in its name, as is the case in many of these 1930s apartments…”
- 1993
Landmarks report singles out Georgian Hall's intact storefront at No. 83-23
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Describing Georgian Hall for the Jackson Heights Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission noted that several shops in the one-story wing on 37th Avenue still kept their original layout, a door set back between two display windows. It singled out No. 83-27 and especially No. 83-23, which still had its original marble bulkhead and metal framing, while roll-down security gates and signs covered historic fabric elsewhere.
“Noteworthy examples include No. 83-27 and No. 83-23 which is particularly intact, retaining its original marble bulkhead and metal framing.”
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