39-20 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
39-20 45th Street is completed in 1926 as part of a nine-house row in Lincoln Court
Sunnyside Gardens' Lincoln Court gained this row house in 1926. It stands sixth from the south end of a row of nine on the west side of 45th Street, a row that mixes flat-roofed two-story houses with two-story-plus-attic houses under slate gables. Its plan is Type A-prime in the Commission's classification, the reverse of the Type A layout used next door at 39-18 and 39-22.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
2007 designation report notes a rear brick addition and a skylight at 39-20 45th Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 designation report noted that this house's front had been cleaned and its porch enclosed with brick, with one-over-one windows on the porch's east and south sides. A wood picket fence and a garbage enclosure stood at the basement stairs. Behind the house a one-story brick addition had been built, the second floor had a bay window, and the roof carried a satellite dish and a skylight.
“REAR - 1-story brick addition; bay window at 2nd floor; satellite dish & skylight at roof…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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