37-34 79th Street

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1926
The J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. develops 37-34 79th Street on a back-to-back block plan
No. 37-34 is one of 46 houses built in 1926-27 by the J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. to designs by Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. Its rear faces the rear of a house cluster on 78th Street, and the group fills the block south of 37th Avenue to Roosevelt Avenue; each house is two and a half stories high. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the style Anglo-American Garden Home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
No. 37-34 repeats the hooded 'b' design of No. 37-28 in its cluster
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Permit NB 10917, filed in 1926, covered this house and its five neighbors from No. 37-26 to No. 37-36. In the cluster's a-b-c-c-b-a rhythm, No. 37-34 is the second 'b' house, matching No. 37-28 with an umbrella hood over its porch rather than a gable. It shares the row's multi-pane double-hung windows, red brick in Flemish bond and pitched tile roof with chimneys.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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