37-55 82nd Street

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

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1911
Charles Peck designs a two-story house here as part of a ten-house row for Charles E. Currier's company
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No. 37-55 began in 1911 as one of a row of ten two-story houses on the east side of 82nd Street, designed by architect Charles Peck for the developer Charles E. Currier Co. Inc. The row was built back-to-back with a matching Peck row on 83rd Street, put up at the same time, whose houses still stand unaltered.
“These seven buildings were originally built in 1911 as part of a row often two-story houses and rebuilt for commercial use…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1933
The house is rebuilt as a store with Tudor-style terra-cotta turrets on its new front
Alteration permits from 1933 and 1939 turned the former rowhouse into a commercial building. Like its neighbors, it was pushed out to the front lot line and given a new facade, with a storefront below and a brick upper wall framing large windows. No. 37-55 alone among the seven got Tudor-inspired terra-cotta forms resembling small turrets; its ground-floor storefront has since been replaced again.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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