37-56 83rd Street

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1911
The Charles E. Currier Co. builds No. 37-56, one of ten Charles Peck rowhouses
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No. 37-56 is one of eight survivors of a row of ten two-story-and-basement houses built in 1911 by the Charles E. Currier Co. to plans by Charles Peck. The brick fronts carry neo-classical details in stone, wood and metal, with stone lintels and modillioned cornices, and pairs of houses alternate between projecting first-story bays and second-story oriels. Each house sits behind a small front yard with a stoop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
The Queensboro Corporation's farmland becomes a row of houses, among the district's first projects
Soon after the Queensboro Corporation bought a large tract of farmland in 1910 in Newtown's Trains Meadow section, it began improving its property. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists Charles Peck's 1911 row along the west side of 83rd Street, which includes No. 37-56, and Laurel Court of 1913-14 as the first projects inside today's historic district. Both followed older 19th-century housing patterns, before Queensboro's later planning innovations.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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