41-05 47th Street

Sunnyside | built 1924

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1924
The City Housing Corporation builds Colonial Court, its first Sunnyside block, in one season
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This house stands on Colonial Court, the block bounded by Skillman and 43rd Avenues and 47th and 48th Streets that the City Housing Corporation developed first at Sunnyside Gardens. Work started in early spring 1924 and was done by fall: six apartment buildings with six or seven families each, 40 two-family houses and eight one-family houses, set around a large central court kept in common for play and gardens. The houses were meant to be owned by their occupants, and they sold quickly.
“Begun in early spring of 1924, it was finished by the fall.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
The end house of a Skillman Avenue row is turned to face the interior garden court
Built in 1924, this flat-roofed, two-story house anchors one end of a nine-house Colonial Court row whose middle houses front Skillman Avenue. While the row's corner houses on the avenue got pedimented parapets, this house and its counterpart at 41-06 48th Street were set to face the block's interior garden court. The row is trimmed with brick soldier courses, cast-stone coping, and paneled wood door surrounds under bracketed hoods.
“The end buildings, facing Skillman Avenue, have pedimented parapet walls, while the flanking buildings are situated to face the interior garden court.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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