39-72 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
39-72 is built in 1925 sharing a cross gable with its neighbor and a terrace cut into its roof
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this Hamilton Court row on 47th Street to 1925. 39-72 is the third house in the row, the last of three with slate-shingled gable roofs, and it shares a cross gable with 39-74/76 next door. From 46th Street its four-bay back wall is partly visible, where the gable roof is cut away to make a third-floor terrace with a metal railing, and a brick chimney rises between its rear and that of 39-74/76.
“The gable roof of all three buildings is cut out to create a third-floor terrace with a metal railing…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Vinyl siding covers 39-72's rear terrace and front porch, the 2007 landmarks survey records
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The Commission's 2007 designation report found the back of 39-72 much altered: the first-floor rear porch was filled in with vinyl, and the third-floor terrace was sided in horizontal and diagonal vinyl behind a metal railing. In front, the enclosed porch was clad in vinyl around a new decorative wood door surround. Brick steps with cast-stone treads led up from a yard edged by a brick cheek wall whose piers carry cast-stone finials.
“REAR - non-historic vinyl porch infill at 1st floor; horizontal & diagonal vinyl siding & metal railing at 3rd floor…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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