39-69 45th Street

Sunnyside | built 1926

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

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1926
A gable-roofed house is built third in a Washington Court row
Built in 1926 in Sunnyside Gardens' Washington Court, this house is the third of eleven on 45th Street, with a slate gable roof whose eaves face the street. Its row mixes two-story flat-roofed houses with gabled ones that add an attic story, and features projecting bay windows, brick soldier courses and header sills that carry on as a band at the second floor.
“The slate shingled, gable roofs of the second, third, tenth and eleventh buildings are eaves front.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
June 26
Landmarks report notes that a fence at 39-69 45th Street cuts into Washington Court's shared garden
Washington Court's 86 houses were laid out around three interior garden courts that every house shares on top of its own front and rear yards. By the time of the 2007 designation report, the owners of this house and of 39-70 46th Street had fenced their yards, cutting off the northern part of the southernmost shared garden. The report also notes that at the center court, every owner facing 45th Street had fenced in their whole lot.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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