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The Kelvin

Kelvin Apartments, Forest Hills, L.I. Rear elevation from Queens Blvd.

Rocky field of the Kelvin Apartments, a six-story building.

IMAGE DATE1928
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The Kelvin Apartments, viewed from Queens Boulevard, November 25, 1928.

The Kelvin, a low-rise apartment building by the Cord Meyer Development Company, was an early example of the high-density residential architecture that would soon arrive in this part of Forest Hills, spurred by the 1936 extension of the IND Queens Boulevard Line.

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