Laburnum Court

37-31 79th Street | also 37-27 79th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1927

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

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1921
Metropolitan Life lends money for Laburnum Court and two other Jackson Heights complexes
In 1921 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company loaned the Queensboro Corporation, developer of Jackson Heights, more than $1,400,000 to build three garden apartment groups: Elm Court, Hawthorne Court and Laburnum Court. The insurer also lobbied for a 1922 change to state law letting insurance companies invest in housing, and by 1922 its loans to Queensboro neared $8,000,000.
“In 1921, it had loaned over $1,400,000 to the Corporation for the construction of Elm, Hawthorne, and Laburnum Courts.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1921
George H. Wells designs Laburnum Court as eight buildings around shared gardens
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Laburnum Court, built in 1921-22 to plans by George H. Wells, has eight five-story buildings in two rows of four, set back to back on 79th and 80th Streets around a broad common garden. Recessed entrance courts split each street front into three parts. The neo-Georgian facades use red brick in Flemish bond, stone-and-brick entrance porticoes topped by iron balconies, arched fifth-floor windows and balustraded cornices.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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