37-37 87th Street

Jackson Heights | built 1924

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1. 1924

   Queensboro Corporation markets this house as an "English Convertible Garden Home"

   This house is one of twenty single-family homes the McAvoys designed in 1924 for 87th Street's east side, between Roosevelt Avenue and 37th Avenue, their first group in Jackson Heights. The Queensboro Corporation advertised the row as "English Convertible Garden Homes," because each owner could decide to turn a house into a two-family residence. The Landmarks Preservation Commission saw in the plan the influence of the Garden City Movement and of experiments in house design around World War I.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1924

   C.F. McAvoy designs the house in a neo-Georgian cluster of five under permit NB 326-1924

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   Filed under new-building permit NB 326-1924 for the Queensboro Corporation, this three-story house is part of a five-house cluster arranged in mirror image, part of a symmetrical row of four clusters. Its style draws on the neo-Georgian: red brick with white trim, wood shutters, and either prominent front gables or shed dormers. The row has terraced front yards and steps, and the commission called it the first of many such groups of attached and semi-detached houses in Jackson Heights in the late 1920s. A one-story addition now spans this end house and No. 37-33, the end of the neighboring cluster.

   “Built in 1924 to designs by C.F. McAvoy, this group of twenty houses was the first of many similar groups of attached and semi-detached houses…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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