21-53 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
Landmarks report finds No. 21-53 still has its original cornice, dormers and front door
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Nos. 21-53 and 21-55 were built in the 1880s as a pair of French Second Empire houses. Each is three stories over a basement, with the lower two floors in brick and the top floor set inside a slate-covered mansard roof with two dormer windows. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Hunters Point Historic District in 1968, No. 21-53 kept its original bracketed roof cornice, its dormers and its front doorway with paneled reveals, while No. 21-55 had lost its original door, cornice and dormer woodwork.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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