37-52 83rd Street

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1911
The Charles E. Currier Co. puts up No. 37-52 in a row of ten Peck houses
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No. 37-52 dates from 1911, when the Charles E. Currier Co. built a row of ten neo-classical houses designed by Charles Peck on the west side of 83rd Street; eight survive. Pairs of houses alternate between first-story three-sided brick bays and second-story oriels trimmed with engaged colonnettes. Set behind small front yards and reached by stoops, the houses are two stories over a basement. This one keeps its historic double-leaf wood-and-glass doors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Charles E. Currier builds the row among the district's first speculative houses
The Queensboro Corporation first planned a neighborhood of concrete cottages built by a method Thomas A. Edison proposed, then dropped the idea and sold its land in parcels of 100 by 100 feet. The first speculative buildings in today's historic district were Charles Peck's 1911 rowhouses on 82nd and 83rd streets, including No. 37-52, put up by Charles E. Currier, who headed the Jackson Heights Building Company. The 82nd Street houses were later demolished or turned to commercial use; the 83rd Street row survives.
“The first speculative buildings in the district were the rowhouses, designed by Charles Peck and built in 1911 on 82nd and 83rd streets…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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