37-48 83rd Street

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1911
The Charles E. Currier Co. builds No. 37-48 in Charles Peck's neo-classical row
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Charles Peck designed No. 37-48 as part of a row of ten houses, eight still standing, that the Charles E. Currier Co. built in 1911. Each house has a front stoop and a small yard, and the brick facades carry stone, wood and metal neo-classical trim with stone lintels and modillioned cornices. The houses alternate in pairs, some with three-sided brick bays on the first story and others with oriels on the second. No. 37-48 retains its old double-leaf wood-and-glass doors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
No. 37-48 is among the oldest buildings still standing in the Jackson Heights district
The Landmarks Preservation Commission names the 1911 Peck rowhouses on 83rd Street's west side, No. 37-48 among them, as the oldest buildings still standing in the district. Built before any of the Queensboro Corporation's planning innovations, the row is a plain pre-World War I type: attached houses with restrained neo-classical trim. The commission saw it as a picture of how the area might have developed if Queensboro had not turned to building apartments.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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