37-48 79th Street

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1926
J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. builds No. 37-48 to plans by Benjamin Dreisler, Jr.
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No. 37-48 79th Street dates from 1926-27, when the J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. developed 46 attached and semi-detached houses on the block between 37th Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue, half facing 78th Street and half facing 79th. Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. was the architect. Each house is two and a half stories, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded the style as Anglo-American Garden Home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
No. 37-48 closes a six-house cluster of mirror-image facades
Permit NB 11922-1926 covered No. 37-48 along with Nos. 37-38 through 37-46. The cluster follows an a-b-c-c-b-a scheme in which entrances, roof profiles and windows repeat symmetrically. Red Flemish-bond brick, fanlight transoms, terra-cotta rosettes and scallop shells, and multi-pane windows give the houses a neo-Georgian character; each has a front garden and a garage set into the rear of its basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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