39-75 47th 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
39-75 is built in 1927 as a flat-roofed house without an outside basement stair in a Roosevelt Court row
This is the second house in a row of six on 47th Street that the Landmarks Preservation Commission dates to 1927, part of Sunnyside Gardens' Roosevelt Court. Like the other three flat-roofed houses at the north end of the row, it stands back from the street, with brick soldier courses above the foundation and above and below the upstairs windows. Every house in the row has an outside basement entry down concrete steps except 39-75, 39-79 and 39-87.
“All buildings have basement entries with concrete steps and flanking concrete cheek walls, except for 39-75, 39-79 and 39-87 47th Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A flagpole stands at 39-75's aluminum-sided porch when the house is surveyed in 2007
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The Commission's 2007 designation report found 39-75 cleaned and repointed, with its parapet rebuilt and topped with cast-stone coping. The porch had been filled in and clad in aluminum siding, with six-over-six wood windows at the front and side, and a flagpole and a mailbox stood near a non-historic door. The vinyl replacement windows had snap-in muntins giving them a six-over-six look.
“…non-historic aluminum siding clad infill at porch, 2x6/6 at front & side; flagpole & mailbox near door…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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