39-47 48th 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
39-47 48th Street goes up in 1927 in Jefferson Court, also known as 39-48 49th Street
No. 39-47 was built in 1927 together with No. 39-45 as a two-house group in Jefferson Court, part of Sunnyside Gardens. The Landmarks Preservation Commission also lists it under a second address, 39-48 49th Street. The house occupies tax lot 53 on Queens block 133.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
A photograph of 39-47 48th Street from about 1940 illustrates a Sunnyside house type
The 2007 designation report uses a photograph of No. 39-47 taken around 1940 to show row-house type L, a three-bay design. In that type the entry sits at one side of the ground floor next to paired six-over-six windows or a bracketed bay window, and a paneled surround and bracketed hood frame the door. No. 39-47 is the mirror-image version, L'.
“Type L, L' – Three-bay row house. ... 39-47 48 th Street c.1940…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
39-47 48th Street keeps the door to its second-floor terrace
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The south side of No. 39-47 faces the service driveway that runs through the block. In the 2007 survey, the historic door onto the second-floor terrace was still in place, while the original six-over-six and four-over-four wood windows had given way to single-pane casements. The porch had been enclosed, and a fence surrounded the side yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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