37-19 78th Street

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1927
This Dreisler house gets a tile roof, a fanlight and terra-cotta shells in a neo-Georgian design
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Built in 1926-27, this house draws on the neo-Georgian style: Flemish-bond red brick, a fanlight transom, terra-cotta rosettes and scallop shells, and multi-pane windows under a pitched tile roof with gables and dormers. The Landmarks report counts its group as typical of the house rows built in Jackson Heights in the later 1920s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
October 19
The house joins the Jackson Heights Historic District with the rest of Dreisler's 46-house group
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Jackson Heights Historic District on October 19, 1993, it took in this house and the other forty-five in Benjamin Dreisler Jr.'s group. The report listed the changes to the row as replacement doors and low walls or fences added along the sidewalk.
“Alterations include replacement doors, additions of low walls and fences at the sidewalk.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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