21-21 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
Stone houses like this one turn the block into Hunters Point's showplace, nicknamed White Collar Row
When Spencer Root and John Rust built their row houses here in the early 1870s, stone dwellings were something new in Hunters Point, where most houses were wooden. The street became the neighborhood's showplace and came to be called White Collar Row. Its first residents, from old American families, soon gave way to Irish families, many of whose men held posts in the government of Long Island City.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1872
Root and Rust build this Westchester stone house at the head of a north-side row of five
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This house heads a group of five, numbers 21-21 through 21-29, built by Root and Rust at the same time as their brick row next door. The houses are three stories over a basement and faced entirely in Westchester stone, with segmental window heads and projecting cornices. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the row, this was the only one of the five whose front-door woodwork it did not find largely original.
“The woodwork of the front doors, with the exception of Numbers 21-21, is largely original.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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