37-26 79th Street

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1926
J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. builds 37-26 79th Street in a group of 46 houses
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This two-and-a-half-story brick house belongs to a group of 46 attached and semi-detached houses that the J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. put up in 1926-27 along 78th and 79th Streets from 37th Avenue to Roosevelt Avenue. Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. drew the plans. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1993 report files the group under a style it calls the Anglo-American Garden Home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
No. 37-26 opens a mirrored cluster of six houses with a pitched-roof front porch
Building permit NB 10917 of 1926 covered Nos. 37-26 through 37-36, which Dreisler arranged in an a-b-c-c-b-a sequence so the six houses read as one larger composition. No. 37-26 is an end 'a' house with a pitched-roof porch. The brick is laid in Flemish bond, the house has a front garden, and a garage sits at the rear of its basement; driveways at the ends of the blockfront lead into the block's interior.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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