39-27 49th 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
A recessed brick row house is built in the middle of the Harrison Place row
39-27 49th Street went up in 1927 as one of thirteen attached Harrison Place houses lining the east side of 49th Street in Sunnyside Gardens. It is one of the two-story center houses with flat roofs and patterned brick parapets, set back slightly from the end houses. Brick soldier courses run above the foundation, the sills are projecting headers, and the doors received paneled wood surrounds and hoods.
“Other decorative details include brick soldier coursing above the foundation, projecting header sills…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-27 49th Street keeps a historic front door at its 2007 landmarking
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The commission's 2007 survey listed the front door of 39-27 49th Street as historic, protected by a grille, under its historic surround and hood, which by then hung on non-historic metal brackets. The concrete stoop had bluestone pavers or tiles and a metal railing. The windows were vinyl with snap-in muntins, through-wall air conditioners projected at both floors, and bluestone coping still capped the parapet.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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