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Daniel Edward McAvoy papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2834

Scope and content

Scrapbooks of printed brochures, plans, and photographs of McAvoy projects, and similar loose items.

Dates

1921-1953.

Creator

McAvoy, Daniel Edward, 1887-1968. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Architect, housing consultant, and builder. During the 1930s Daniel McAvoy was a consultant for the Federal government on refinancing home mortgages. He served as secretary of the Home Mortgage Advisory Board and the national Smaller Business Council. He and his brother, Charles F. McAvoy, built homes in Forest Hills, Queens, and the Five Towns area of Nassau County, New York in the first decade of the 1900s. In 1948 he opened his own office in New York City as a broker, appraiser, and housing consultant, and was a pioneer in the development of prefabricated housing units.