39-30 47th Street

Sunnyside | built 1925

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

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1925
Spring
The City Housing Corporation builds Hamilton Court, the second block of Sunnyside Gardens
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After finishing Colonial Court in 1924, the City Housing Corporation moved on to Hamilton Court, the block that includes this house, starting work in spring 1925. The court held homes for 225 families in single-family and three-family houses, was ready by the end of that summer and sold well. By early 1926 the company was ready to start 300 more homes.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
39-30 47th Street is one of four houses in its Hamilton Court row with a slate gable roof
The 14-house Hamilton Court row on the west side of 47th Street mixes two-story flat-roofed houses with ones that add an attic under a gable roof. Only four of them, 39-28, 39-30, 39-48 and 39-50, have slate-shingled gable roofs, and on each the eaves face the street.
“The slate shingled, gable roofs of 39-28, 39-30, 39-48 and 39- 50 47th Street are eaves front.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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