39-11 47th Street

Sunnyside | built 1927

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

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1927
No. 39-11 is one of two houses in its row that keep their original enclosed porch
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In the 1927 Roosevelt Court row of seven houses on the east side of 47th Street, only 39-11 and 39-15 still have their historic enclosed porches and doors. No. 39-11 is one of the five flat-roofed houses in the row, which sit back from the street line and are decorated with geometric brick coursing, diamond-shaped brick patterns, projecting bay windows and brick piers.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
The house is photographed around 1940, a view later used to illustrate its row house type
The 2007 designation report uses 39-11 47th Street to illustrate row house Type P and its mirror image P'. These are three-bay houses with the entry on one side, two windows beside it, and paired double-hung windows on the upper floor. Its pages pair a recent view of the house with one taken around 1940, and do the same for a second example, 39-76 48th Street.
“39-11 47th Street 39-11 47th Street c. 1940…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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