37-46 79th Street

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1926
No. 37-46 is one of Dreisler's clustered houses framing a mid-block berm
No. 37-46 79th Street is one of twenty-three clustered houses that Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. designed in 1926 for each of the blockfronts of 78th and 79th Streets running from 37th Avenue to Roosevelt Avenue. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes their details as loosely Georgian, set off by Spanish-tile mansard roofs. The houses frame an earthen berm inside the block, and shared driveways lead to garages built under the houses.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
No. 37-46 is filed with five neighbors under one 1926 building permit
No. 37-46 was one of six houses, Nos. 37-38 to 37-48, covered by permit NB 11922-1926. Across the whole group the houses back onto clusters facing 78th Street, and each 79th Street blockfront holds twenty-three houses in four clusters. Their neo-Georgian vocabulary includes Flemish-bond red brick, porches with pitched roofs or umbrella hoods, fanlight transoms, and tile roofs with gables, shed dormers and chimneys.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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