37-28 79th Street

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1926
Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. designs 37-28 79th Street for the J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp.
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No. 37-28 is one of 46 houses of two and a half stories that the J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. developed in 1926-27 in back-to-back clusters on 78th and 79th Streets, from 37th Avenue to Roosevelt Avenue. Architect Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. designed the whole group, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission describes as attached and semi-detached houses in an Anglo-American Garden Home style.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
No. 37-28 takes the umbrella-hooded 'b' position in its six-house cluster
Filed in 1926 under permit NB 10917 with its five neighbors from No. 37-26 to No. 37-36, this house is the second, or 'b', unit in a symmetrical a-b-c-c-b-a cluster. Instead of a gabled porch, its entrance sits under an umbrella-shaped hood. Neo-Georgian touches shared by the row include fanlights over the doors, terra-cotta ornament in rosette and scallop-shell forms, and a tile roof with shed dormers.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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