Jefferson Hall Apartments

78-12 35th Avenue | also 35-01 78th Street, 35-02 79th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1937

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

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1936
Fillmore Gardens builds the Jefferson Hall Apartments to a design by Joshua Tabatchnik
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Built in 1936-37 for the developer Fillmore Gardens, the six-story Jefferson Hall Apartments occupy the block end on the south side of 35th Avenue between 78th and 79th Streets. Joshua Tabatchnik planned the building around a large recessed entrance court, with light courts on the sides. Brick temple-front motifs with stone trim mark both halves of the avenue facade, and the main doorway sits under an arched pediment between metal lamps; its metal-and-glass doors are replacements.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1936
Jefferson Hall takes a name that nods to early America
The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that many 1930s apartment houses in Jackson Heights announced their red-brick Georgian styling through their names, such as Georgian Gardens and Colonial Arms. Others hinted at the Colonial and early Federal eras less directly, and the report lists Jefferson Hall among them, along with Mt. Vernon, named for Washington's estate, and The Litchfield, probably after the Connecticut town.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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