Lewis Mumford House

40-02 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
Urbanist Lewis Mumford moves into this new house with his wife Sophia and their children
The urbanist Lewis Mumford, one of Sunnyside Gardens' original homeowners, lived at 40-02 44th Street from 1927 to 1936 with his wife, Sophia, and their two children. Their daughter Alison spent the first two years of her life in the house, according to a 2004 Queens Chronicle account.
Source: qchron.com
2004
Mumford's grandson unveils a National Register plaque on the family's former home
In 2004 the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance held a ceremony to mark Lewis Mumford's years at 40-02 44th Street with a National Register plaque. James Morss, the urbanist's grandson, unveiled it. Morss's mother, Alison, had lived in the house as a small child, and Morss himself lived in Sunnyside Gardens from 1999 to 2003, the Queens Chronicle reported in December 2004.
Source: qchron.com

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