41-06 48th 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
spring
The City Housing Corporation starts Sunnyside Gardens with Colonial Court, where this house stands
Colonial Court, the block between 43rd and Skillman Avenues and 47th and 48th Streets, was the City Housing Corporation's first unit at Sunnyside. Started in early spring 1924 and done by fall, it held six cooperative apartment houses, 40 two-family homes and eight one-family homes set around a shared central court. The houses were meant for individual owners and sold quickly, and the company moved on to the next block.
“Begun in early spring of 1924, it was finished by the fall... They sold rapidly and the City Housing Corporation moved on to the next block.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
This house is built at the end of a row of nine that wraps the Skillman Avenue side of Colonial Court
The house is one of a row of nine flat-roofed, two-story houses of three types along the south side of Skillman Avenue, and one of the flanking houses turned to face the interior garden court, with a two-bay side wall on 48th Street. Details include soldier-course brick, cast-stone parapet coping and paneled wood door surrounds with bracketed hoods. The end houses facing Skillman Avenue have pedimented parapets.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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