39-84 44th 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
The house goes up as one of eight attic row houses lining a hedged garden court
Built in 1927, 39-84 44th Street sits in the middle of a row of eight two-story-plus-attic houses that face south onto a central garden, most of them alternating between two house types. Seven of the eight share slate-shingled side-gable roofs, and the row has brick soldier courses above the foundation and the big windows, with brick chimneys at the ends and after every second house. Each house has a small planted front yard, divided from the grassy, hedge-lined court by a concrete path, and the court is edged by a scalloped cast-stone curb and has black light posts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
A photograph of this row just after construction appears on the cover of the 2007 landmark report
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation report for the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District, dated June 26, 2007, uses a historic photograph of Madison Court North, 39-74 to 39-88 44th Street, on its cover. The picture, taken shortly after the houses were finished, comes from the Clarence Stein Collection held by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University Library.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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