Linden Court
37-21 84th Street | also 37-27 84th Street, 37-23 84th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1921
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1919
Queensboro starts cooperative ownership in Jackson Heights with Linden Court
In 1919, starting with Linden Court, the Queensboro Corporation introduced a plan under which the buildings in its garden apartment complexes were owned cooperatively, and it turned rental buildings it already had into cooperatives. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists this among its findings for the Jackson Heights Historic District, together with the block plan Andrew J. Thomas introduced here: buildings in attached pairs around an undivided garden held in common through easements and deed restrictions.
- 1919
Title Guarantee & Trust provides about $500,000 to finance Linden Court
According to a New York Times report of May 25, 1919, cited by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the Title Guarantee & Trust Company provided roughly $500,000 to build Linden Court, including the building at Nos. 37-21 and 37-27 84th Street. With the land added in, the investment came to $900,000. Construction got under way in the middle of 1919, about a year and a half after the plans were first announced.
“Financing was eventually provided by the Title Guarantee & Trust Company for approximately $500,000…”
- 1919
Andrew J. Thomas gives Linden Court a Mediterranean look unlike nearby Tudor blocks
Thomas arranged each Linden Court blockfront as five structures in pairs separated by driveways into the block's garden, with the widest pair at the center and narrower ones toward the ends. For ornament he drew on Romanesque and Renaissance Italy and Spain: round-arched entries with heavy wooden doors, rope moldings, carved stone shields, iron balconies and roofs of Spanish tile. The Landmarks Preservation Commission links the style's popularity in the 1910s and 1920s partly to the 1912 Pan-American Exhibition in California.
“The Mediterranean-inspired ambience of Linden Court is an interesting contrast to the Tudor and Georgian references in other complexes.”
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