39-81 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
39-81 45th Street is built as a type A row house in Washington Court
The house at 39-81 45th Street, on Block 154, Lot 13, was built in 1926 among the eleven Washington Court row houses on 45th Street in Sunnyside Gardens. It is the last of the six flat-roofed houses at the center of the row before two gable-roofed houses close the southern end, and its rear can be seen from 46th Street.
“The rear facades of the southern buildings in the row are visible from 46th Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Vinyl siding encloses the porch of 39-81 45th Street, but its bluestone path survives
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By the 2007 designation, 39-81's entry porch had been covered in non-historic vinyl siding with one-over-one windows on the front and side, and the basement had a single-pane window with a grille and a new door. At the back, a door had been set into an enlarged first-floor opening. The historic bluestone path remained, behind a wood picket fence and gate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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