37-38 79th Street

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1926
The J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. builds 37-38 79th Street, one of 46 houses on the block
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No. 37-38 is one of 46 attached and semi-detached houses, two and a half stories each, that the J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. erected in 1926-27 on both long sides of the block bounded by 78th Street, 79th Street, 37th Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue. Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. designed them in what the Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the Anglo-American Garden Home style.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
No. 37-38 starts a second six-house cluster under its own 1926 permit
This house was filed under permit NB 11922 of 1926 together with Nos. 37-40 through 37-48, a separate cluster from the six houses at Nos. 37-26 to 37-36. It is the end 'a' house of an a-b-c-c-b-a sequence, with a pitched-roof porch. Alterations the report records along the row include replacement doors and new low walls and fences at the sidewalk.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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