37-44 79th Street

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1926
Kleinman's construction company develops No. 37-44 as a two-and-a-half-story house
No. 37-44 79th Street was put up in 1926-27 by the J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp., developer of a 46-house group of attached and semi-detached houses on the block between 37th Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue, facing 78th and 79th Streets. The architect was Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. The houses rise two and a half stories, in a style the Landmarks Preservation Commission called Anglo-American Garden Home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
No. 37-44 is one of six houses designed as a symmetrical group on 79th Street
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Under permit NB 11922-1926, No. 37-44 went up with Nos. 37-38, 37-40, 37-42, 37-46 and 37-48. The report explains that Dreisler arranged six-house clusters in an a-b-c-c-b-a pattern, so that matching entrances, roofs and windows on either side make each cluster look like a single large house. Details include fanlights, terra-cotta ornament, and a modified Palladian window on the c houses. Alterations across the group noted in 1993 include new doors and low walls and fences at the sidewalk.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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