21-11 45th Avenue

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

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1872
No. 21-11 is completed in a row of five Italianate brick houses by Root and Rust
Developers Spencer Root and John Rust put up No. 21-11 in 1871-72 as one of five matching Italianate houses from 21-09 to 21-17 on what was then Twelfth Street. It is three stories of brick on a stuccoed basement. Its windows have segmental-arched lintels topped by cornices, and between the cornice brackets runs a paneled fascia with two smaller acanthus consoles. Stoops, door pediments, lintels and cornices on the group remained intact in 1968.
“This group of five houses in the Italianate style was built in 1871-2 by and for Spencer Root and John Rust.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1966
November 22
Residents turn out at a landmarks hearing to back a Hunters Point Historic District
On November 22, 1966, the city's landmarks commission took public testimony on making this stretch of 45th Avenue a historic district. Seven witnesses spoke in favor, no one opposed it, and many residents attended to show support. Queens Borough President Mario J. Cariello sent a supporting letter that was read aloud. One witness, Salvatore Saraceno, told the commission he had bought a house on the avenue and turned it from a rooming house into a two-family home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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