Edward E. Sanford House
102-45 47th Avenue | Corona | built 1910
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1871
Edward Sanford buys a lot in the old village of Newtown and builds a house his family keeps for a century
The land had been part of a tract that investor Benjamin W. Hitchcock called the Village of West Flushing in 1854. Daniel Sanford Duncomb, a Manhattan merchant buying up village real estate, sold this parcel to Edward Sanford in April 1871. The frame house Sanford put up stayed in his family for more than 100 years and is one of the few intact houses left from this early wave of suburban building.
“…sold it to Edward R. Sanford in April 1871. The house that Sanford built and which remained in his family for over 100 years…”
- 1871
A local carpenter likely builds the Sanford House in a simplified country Italianate style
No record names a designer, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission concluded that Sanford probably hired a village carpenter who followed the building customs of the day, when builders' handbooks such as Calvert Vaux's Villas and Cottages and A. J. Downing's The Architecture of Country Houses were in wide use. The result is a simplified Italianate frame house with square-headed windows, cap-molded lintels and a porch whose parapet panels are cut into propeller-like silhouette balusters.
“…it is quite likely that Sanford hired a local carpenter from the village to erect his new house…”
- 1987
The Sanford House becomes a city landmark nearly five years after its public hearing
The Landmarks Preservation Commission heard the case on April 13, 1982, when three witnesses spoke in favor and none against, and voted to designate the house in February 1987. The Commission singled it out as one of the last intact 19th-century buildings in the old village of Newtown, prized for the carved woodwork of its porch, eaves and property-line fence.
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