37-58 83rd Street

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1911
Charles E. Currier builds 37-58 83rd Street among the first speculative houses in Jackson Heights
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This house is part of a row designed by Charles Peck and put up in 1911 by Charles E. Currier, who headed the Jackson Heights Building Company. The Queensboro Corporation had first meant to fill its land with concrete cottages built by a method Thomas A. Edison proposed, but gave that up and sold 100-by-100-foot parcels instead. Currier's paired rows on 82nd and 83rd streets near Roosevelt Avenue were the first speculative buildings in what is now the historic district.
“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
1911
Charles Peck designs 37-58 83rd Street in a row of ten brick houses with stoops and front yards
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Built for the Charles E. Currier Co. Inc., the row was ten two-story-and-basement brick houses with stoops, small front yards and neo-classical trim in stone, wood and metal; eight of them survive, this one among them. Stone lintels and modillioned cornices run the length of the group. A matching Peck row stood back to back with it on 82nd Street, but those houses were altered and turned to commercial use over the following decades.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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