39-55 45th Street
Sunnyside | built 1926
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1925
Block 154's easements of December 1925 cover the garden behind 39-55 45th Street
Easements for Block 154, the block that includes 39-55 45th Street, are dated December 31, 1925, as are those for Block 155 across the street. The Declaration of Easements and Restrictions kept the interior of the block as a shared garden and barred fences, hedges, clotheslines, radio poles, signs and awnings. Any change to a porch or exterior required the trustees' written consent.
“…we have copies of the easements for Blocks 154 and 155 (dated December 31, 1925)…”
- 1926
Washington Court's 1926 row on 45th Street includes 39-55, a hipped-roof Type G' house
Number 39-55 is the tenth of 12 row houses on the east side of 45th Street that the landmarks commission assigns to Washington Court, dated 1926. It is Type G'. The second, third, tenth and eleventh houses carry hipped roofs and stand forward of the six center houses, while the flat-roofed end houses are set back farther and turned to face the through-block paths. Bay windows, brick pilasters and soldier coursing decorate the row.
- 2007
The 2007 survey finds a historic wood door and bluestone path at 39-55 45th Street
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When the commission surveyed the district in 2007, 39-55 45th Street still had a historic wood door, behind an aluminum storm door, and a historic bluestone front path. The concrete step kept its historic metal railing. Its windows were one-over-one aluminum with snap-in six-over-six muntins, and its window bay was a replacement under an asphalt-shingle roof.
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