37-47 82nd Street

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

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1911
Charles E. Currier builds Jackson Heights' first speculative houses on this block
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This lot was part of a row of two-story masonry rowhouses that Charles E. Currier, head of the Jackson Heights Building Company, put up in 1911 along both 82nd and 83rd Streets a short way above Roosevelt Avenue, to plans by Charles Peck. The 1993 district report counts them as the first speculative buildings in the district, a hint of how the area might have looked had the Queensboro Corporation not turned to apartment houses. The 82nd Street houses were later razed or converted to commerce.
“The first speculative buildings in the district were the rowhouses, designed by Charles Peck and built in 1911 on 82nd and 83rd streets…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1941
A 1941 alteration turns No. 37-47 into a cast-stone store building
The former 1911 rowhouse at 37-47 82nd Street was rebuilt for business under alteration permit Alt 1657-1941. Like its neighbors it was extended out to the front lot line and given a new face: its cast-stone upper story frames large windows and carries rustication and a classical medallion. The ground-floor storefront has since been replaced again.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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