37-50 79th Street

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1926
Kleinman's company develops No. 37-50 in a 46-house garden-home group
The J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. developed No. 37-50 79th Street in 1926-27 as part of 46 attached and semi-detached houses filling the block between 37th and Roosevelt Avenues, with twenty-three on 78th Street and twenty-three on 79th. Benjamin Dreisler, Jr. designed them. The houses stand two and a half stories, in what the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report calls the Anglo-American Garden Home style.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
No. 37-50 belongs to a five-house cluster at the south end of the block
No. 37-50 was filed under permit NB 11921-1926 with Nos. 37-52, 37-54, 37-56 and 37-58. The group's two five-house clusters, one on each street, back onto each other at the southern end and follow an a-b-c-b-a pattern, while the other clusters have six houses. The neo-Georgian design uses Flemish-bond red brick, fanlight transoms and tile roofs, and each house has a garage at the back of the basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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