39-78 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
39-78 45th Street is built in 1926 as the mirror twin of its Lincoln Court neighbors
Built in 1926, 39-78 45th Street is a type A' house, the mirror image of the type A houses on either side of it, in the ten-house Lincoln Court row on 45th Street. Like the other flat-roofed houses in the middle of the row, it is set back from the street and has an enclosed entry porch, while 39-70 near the north end and the two southernmost houses have gable roofs.
“Row of ten, two or two-story-plus-attic row houses divided into four different types and two mirror images…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Multi-light casement windows survive on the porch of 39-78 45th Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2007 survey noted that 39-78 still had its historic multi-light casement windows on the front and side of the entry porch, though the porch itself had been covered in non-historic wood siding. The historic door also survived behind an aluminum storm door. A wood picket fence stood at the basement steps, and a cobblestone curb edged the front yard.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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