37-11 87th Street

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1924
C.F. McAvoy designs this house in Queensboro's first group of garden homes in Jackson Heights
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This house belongs to a row of twenty houses along 87th Street's east side from Roosevelt Avenue to 37th Avenue, filed under permit NB 328-1924 and designed by C.F. McAvoy for the Queensboro Corporation. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the row the first of the attached and semi-detached house groups that went up in Jackson Heights in the late 1920s. Its four clusters of five houses mix red brick, white trim, tile or slate roofs and shutters in a neo-Georgian manner.
“Built in 1924 to designs by C.F. McAvoy, this group of twenty houses was the first of many similar groups of attached and semi-detached houses…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
Queensboro sells the row as "English Convertible Garden Homes" that owners can split into two flats
The Queensboro Corporation marketed the twenty 1924 McAvoy houses on this blockfront as "English Convertible Garden Homes," meaning a buyer could keep one as a single-family house or turn it into a two-family residence. The landmarks report links their layout to the Garden City Movement: the houses stand in four freestanding groups instead of an unbroken street wall, and a shared driveway leads to garages tucked below the rear of each house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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