Cambridge Court

37-14 86th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1922

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

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1922
George H. Wells designs Cambridge Court, with No. 37-14 among its fourteen buildings
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No. 37-14 (NB 8141-1922) is one of fourteen four-story-and-basement buildings that George H. Wells designed in 1922 for Jackson Heights Gardens Inc., seven along each of 85th and 86th Streets, set back to back around a shared garden in the middle of the block. Its red Flemish-bond brick and Georgian details are said to have been modeled on Harvard's freshman dormitories in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along each street the buildings alternate in an A-B-B-A-B-B-A rhythm of flat-roofed pavilions and mansard-roofed links, all with Wells's projecting entrance porches.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1991
Driveways are cut through Cambridge Court's basements and part of its garden is paved for parking
Three driveways were cut through Cambridge Court's basements in 1991 to link the street with the interior court, and part of the shared garden was turned into a parking lot. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1993 survey of the Jackson Heights Historic District also notes access ramps added to several of the complex's fourteen buildings.
“In 1991 three driveways were cut through the basement level of the buildings to connect the street and interior court…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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