37-49 87th Street

Jackson Heights | built 1924

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1. 1924

   McAvoy architects vary the houses but mass each cluster like one building

   The houses in this 1924 row were planned in clusters of five, and the McAvoys shaped each cluster with projecting wings and recessed sections so it reads as a single pavilion. Varied gables, dormers and roof lines set the houses apart, while common brick, roof tiles and classical details unify them. The firm repeated the idea the following year in a group of eighteen houses farther up 87th Street.

   “…conceived each cluster to look like a single unit, massing them with recessed sections and projecting wings to suggest the form of a pavilion.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1924

   C.F. McAvoy designs the house in a neo-Georgian cluster of five under permit NB 329-1924

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   Filed under new-building permit NB 329-1924 for the Queensboro Corporation, this three-story house is part of a five-house cluster arranged in mirror image, part of a symmetrical row of four clusters. Its style draws on the neo-Georgian: red brick with white trim, wood shutters, and either prominent front gables or shed dormers. The row has terraced front yards and steps, and the commission called it the first of many such groups of attached and semi-detached houses in Jackson Heights in the late 1920s. This end house now has a one-story addition at its side.

   “Built in 1924 to designs by C.F. McAvoy, this group of twenty houses was the first of many similar groups of attached and semi-detached houses…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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