Hamilton Court

37-45 79th Street | also 37-41 79th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1926

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1925
One 1925 permit covers Nos. 37-41 and 37-45, a Hamilton Court pair on 79th Street
No. 37-45 79th Street and its partner No. 37-41 share a tax lot and were filed under a single new-building permit, NB 8337-1925. They form one of the four pairs of six-story buildings in Hamilton Court, which the Equi Corp. developed in 1925-26 with H. Hamilton as architect. Each pair backs onto another across a common garden.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
H. Hamilton gives No. 37-45 wood sash windows and mansard-roofed end bays
The Landmarks Preservation Commission noted in 1993 that Hamilton Court's buildings still had their original double-hung wood sash, eight-over-eight and six-over-six. The end bays of each pair step slightly forward and carry mansard roofs, while the neo-Tudor facades combine tapestry brick, random quoins, Tudor-arched stone window heads and crenellated parapets, with tower-like forms rising above the entrance bays.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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