Hamilton Court
37-51 79th Street | also 37-55 79th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1927
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1925
H. Hamilton designs this neo-Tudor pair of Hamilton Court for the Equi Corp.
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Nos. 37-51 and 37-55 79th Street went up under permit NB 8336-1925 as one of the four pairs that make up Hamilton Court, a garden apartment group of eight six-story buildings completed in 1925-26. H. Hamilton designed it for the developer Equi Corp. and dressed the brick in Tudor-arched stone window heads, irregular stone rustication, mock half-timbering in brick, crenellated parapets and small tower-like forms over the entrances. The pairs back onto a shared garden reached through brick gates.
- 1993
Landmarks report finds new roofs and permastone on this Hamilton Court pair
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed Hamilton Court for the Jackson Heights Historic District, it found that the buildings still had their original eight-over-eight and six-over-six wooden sash windows. This pair at 37-51 to 37-55 79th Street, along with the pair behind it on 80th Street, had been given new roofs and repointed brickwork, and permastone had been applied around the entrances.
- 1993
Jackson Heights Historic District's southern line follows this building's lot
The boundary drawn for the Jackson Heights Historic District in its 1993 designation report runs east across 79th Street and then along the southern property line of 37-55 79th Street before continuing along the lots of the 80th Street buildings behind it. The Commission had heard testimony on the district at a December 4, 1990 public hearing, where fifty speakers supported designation.
“…easterly across 79th Street, easterly along the southern property lines of 37-55 79th Street and 37-52-37-56 80th Street…”
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- Hamilton Court37-45 79th Street | 2 entries
- 37-54 79th Street2 entries
- 37-52 79th Street2 entries
- 37-58 79th Street1 entry
- 37-50 79th Street2 entries
- 37-56 79th Street1 entry