39-19 45th Street

Sunnyside | built 1926

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

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1926
39-19 45th Street is built in 1926 as a gabled house in Washington Court
This row house was completed in 1926 in Washington Court, one of the garden courts of Sunnyside Gardens. It is the seventh in a row of 13 on the east side of 45th Street, which mixes flat-roofed two-story houses with two-story-plus-attic houses in three plans. Like its northern neighbor, it has a slate-shingled gable roof with the eaves facing the street, and its plan is Type A.
“The slate shingled, gable roofs of the first, second, sixth, seventh, eleventh and twelfth buildings are eaves front.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Asphalt shingles cover the porch and roof of 39-19 45th Street by 2007
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 designation report recorded that this house's porch had been filled in, with a door and a wide side opening, and that both the porch and the main roof were covered in asphalt shingles the Commission considered non-historic. The windows were one-over-one aluminum, with a fixed single pane at the porch, and a brick wall with a raised planting bed edged the front. Mechanical equipment and a vent sat on the rear roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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