Linden Court
37-40 85th Street | also 37-34 85th 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
Self-taught architect Andrew J. Thomas begins Linden Court, his first Jackson Heights job
Andrew Jackson Thomas (1875-1965), who designed 37-34 and 37-40 85th Street, had been orphaned at thirteen and worked in the Yukon gold fields and as a tenement rent collector before teaching himself architecture as a builder's timekeeper. After designing wartime housing for the U.S. Shipping Board, he went to work for the Queensboro Corporation, and construction of his Linden Court began in mid-1919.
“Thomas was orphaned at the age of thirteen ... Actual construction did not begin until the middle of 1919…”
- 1919
Linden Court's 37-34 and 37-40 85th Street rise as one paired structure
Under permit NB 2763-1919, the Jackson Heights Apt. Corp. put up 37-34 and 37-40 85th Street as one of Linden Court's ten four-story-and-basement buildings, each made of two units. Every facade has two arched entrances, one per unit, and the driveways between the structures lead to one-story garages behind each building. The Commission identifies the style as Spanish Romanesque and Renaissance, with escudo keystones, iron grilles and red roof tiles.
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- Linden Court37-21 84th Street | 3 entries