37-53 78th 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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- 1926
Benjamin Dreisler Jr. designs a five-house cluster with this house at its center
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No. 37-53 stands in the middle of the five-house cluster running from No. 37-49 to No. 37-57 78th Street, one of the groups in Benjamin Dreisler Jr.'s 46-house development between 37th and Roosevelt Avenues. The five-house groups follow a mirrored a-b-c-b-a scheme, with entrances, roof profiles and windows arranged so that each cluster reads as one larger building. Red Flemish-bond brick, fanlight transoms, terra-cotta rosettes and scallop shells, and tile roofs with gables and shed dormers come from the neo-Georgian style.
“…each of the two five-house clusters, which back onto each other at the southern end of the group, are designed in an "a-b-c-b-a" pattern…”
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- 37-45 78th Street1 entry
- 37-43 78th Street1 entry