37-52 79th Street

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1926
Benjamin Dreisler Jr. designs No. 37-52 as part of a five-house cluster
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No. 37-52 79th Street belongs to a cluster of five houses filed together under permit NB 11921-1926 and finished in 1926-27 to plans by Benjamin Dreisler Jr. The five follow a symmetrical a-b-c-b-a arrangement and back onto a matching five-house cluster on 78th Street. Their neo-Georgian vocabulary includes red brick in Flemish bond, fanlights, terra-cotta rosettes and scallop shells, and tiled roofs with gables and shed dormers.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
Landmarks Commission records later doors, walls and fences on the Dreisler houses
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1993 report on the Jackson Heights Historic District listed the changes made to this group of Dreisler houses since they were built in 1926-27. Owners had put in replacement front doors and added low walls and fences along the sidewalk.
“Alterations include replacement doors, additions of low walls and fences at the sidewalk…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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