Hamilton Court

39-38 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
The City Housing Corporation builds Hamilton Court, the second section of Sunnyside Gardens
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This house belongs to Hamilton Court, the second block the City Housing Corporation developed at Sunnyside Gardens after Colonial Court of 1924. Work on the court started in the spring of 1925, and by the close of that summer its single-family and three-family houses, with room for 225 families, were finished. The houses sold well, and at the start of 1926 the company was ready to begin 300 more homes.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
No. 39-38 is one of two center houses with a peaked brick parapet in its 47th Street row
The house stands at the middle of a row of 14 houses on the west side of 47th Street, built for Hamilton Court in 1925. It and its neighbor at 39-40 share the row's distinguishing feature: a corbelled brick panel that projects from the facade and rises to a peaked parapet. Like the other flat-roofed houses at the center of the row, it is set back from the line of the street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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