37-55 78th 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
J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. files to build this house and four of its neighbors
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New-building permit NB 11923-1926 covered the five houses from No. 37-49 to No. 37-57 78th Street, this one included, for the J.H. Kleinman Construction Corp. They were part of a group of 46 attached and semi-detached houses, two and a half stories tall and dated 1926-27, designed by Benjamin Dreisler Jr. The Landmarks Preservation Commission classes their style as the Anglo-American Garden Home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
The landmarks commission records the group's front gardens, basement garages and later changes
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In its 1993 report on the Jackson Heights Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the Dreisler houses on 78th and 79th Streets, this one among them, as each having a front garden and a garage at the back of the basement. Driveways entering at the ends of the blockfronts lead into the block's interior. The changes it listed for the group were replacement doors and the addition of low walls and fences along the sidewalk.
“A garage is located in the rear of the basement of each house. Alterations include replacement doors, additions of low walls and fences at the sidewalk.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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