Linden Court
37-33 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.
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- 1919
Andrew J. Thomas tells the New York Times that Linden Court's suites are model apartments
In a New York Times article of May 25, 1919, on the Queensboro Corporation starting sixteen new apartment houses in Jackson Heights, architect Andrew J. Thomas described Linden Court's suites as model apartments built around ideal room layouts and as much light and air as possible. He pointed out that the wide side courts would double as driveways for automobiles, and that the plan left room for gardens, walks and recreation.
“The Times went on further to quote the architect of the complex, Andrew J. Thomas: ...the basic thought of these model apartments…”
- 1919
Linden Court's enclosed loggias bring country-house comfort to apartment living
Besides ground-level garages, Linden Court introduced the enclosed loggia, which the New York Times said in 1919 gave an apartment house both the look and the comfort of a country house. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that the idea evolved into the corner solarium found in many Art Deco apartment houses.
“…the introduction of the enclosed loggia, "creating not only an aspect of a country house in an apartment house, but the comfort as well.”
- 1920
Critic John Taylor Boyd Jr. hails Linden Court as the garden apartment's highest achievement
In his 1920 series "Garden Apartments in Cities," critic John Taylor Boyd Jr. praised Linden Court as a block designed as one coordinated whole. He observed that its long interior garden gave children somewhere to play besides the street, which even Park Avenue's luxury buildings could not offer, and called the group the highest achievement in the garden apartment yet, crediting Andrew J. Thomas with the first real garden apartment group designed as a whole for a city block.
“…here, considered from all points of view, is the highest achievement in the garden apartment that has been reached so far…”
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