21-27 45th Avenue
Long Island City | built 1872
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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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- 1872
Root and Rust build a Westchester stone town house in a matched row of five
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One of five houses at Nos. 21-21 to 21-29 that Root and Rust completed in 1871-72, three stories over a basement and built of Westchester stone. The first-floor window cornices rest on ribbed brackets decorated with five-pointed stars, and the round-headed doorway has a vermiculated keystone under a classical pediment. Its stoop and areaway balustrades are of composition stone with arched openings and Gothic-paneled octagonal newels.
“…carried on ribbed brackets which are decorated with five pointed stars…”
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