21-31 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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1968
The landmarks report finds this Root and Rust brick house still close to original
Root and Rust built this brick Italianate house in the early 1870s as the first of five, Nos. 21-31 to 21-39, three stories over a stuccoed basement, which carried their stone row into a 15-house run. When the street was designated in 1968, No. 21-31 still had its classical door pediment, its original cast-iron areaway railing, and its stoop newels and handrails, under an acanthus-bracketed roof cornice.
“The original cast iron railings at the areaways of Numbers 21-31 and 21-35 are in place…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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