37-33 78th Street

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

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1926
This house falls in a mirror-image cluster patterned a-b-c-c-b-a
Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. laid out each six-house cluster on this block in an a-b-c-c-b-a sequence, so the houses on either side of the center repeat each other in reverse. Entrances placed as mirror images, alternating roof profiles and the window arrangement make each cluster read as one larger building. The "a" and "c" houses have pitched-roof porches and the "b" houses umbrella hoods; the "c" houses add a modified Palladian window.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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