39-75 46th 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
Frederick Ackerman designs the houses and Marjorie Cautley the gardens of courts like 39-75's
The houses of Sunnyside Gardens, 39-75 among them, came from a team: architect Frederick Ackerman drew the individual house designs, while landscape architect Marjorie Cautley planned the courtyards and open space. The designers aimed for overall harmony in each block's facades with variety inside it, and they mixed one-, two- and three-family houses with low apartment buildings to bring owners and renters together.
“…while Frederick Ackerman created the individual house designs. Landscape architect Marjorie Cautley supplied the plans for the courtyards and open space.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
No. 39-75 ends its Hamilton Court row with a side wall on the through-block path
The southernmost of nine Hamilton Court houses built in 1925 on 46th Street, No. 39-75 turns a three-bay side wall toward a through-block path. A brick chimney rises from that end of its slate gable roof, and a small paved side yard sits behind a wood picket fence. At the back, its three-bay rear wall is a mirror image of the one at 39-73 next door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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