116-46 227th Street
Cambria Heights | built 1930
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1931
The Brooklyn Eagle praises the finished houses of this row as affordable on $50 a week
In August 1931 the Brooklyn Eagle profiled the completed houses on 227th Street, including No. 116-46, describing a studio living room lit by a tall bank of casement windows with small leaded panes, some lightly tinted. The paper said the houses combined old-fashioned comfort with modern conveniences and could be bought by a family earning $50 a week.
“Yet they are homes that can be bought on an income of $50 weekly.”
- 1931
No. 116-46 has a squared-off doorway and paved front yard but keeps its half-timbering
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No. 116-46 is one of the paired Storybook houses St. Albans Lawns Inc. built in 1931 to Andrew A. Marjey's plans. It keeps its second-story half-timbering with basketweave and herringbone brick and its slate vestibule roof and parapet. Its round-headed main doorway has since been squared off, a cellar entrance has been added and the front lawn has been paved.
“Main-entrance opening altered from round-headed to square-headed and replacement door installed…”
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