Colonial Court

41-12 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
This apartment house opens in Colonial Court, Sunnyside's first unit, planned as a community of its own
Built in 1924, this is one of six three-story apartment houses in Colonial Court, paired in twos alongside 48 row houses on a block bounded by Skillman Avenue, 48th Street, 43rd Avenue and 47th Street. While the row houses were sold as one- and two-family homes, the apartments were sold as cooperatives. Each building originally had six-over-six wood windows and fifteen-pane wood doors under metal hoods on carved brackets.
“Colonial Court, "the first unit built in 1924, was designed as a separate community.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
The building is designed as a mirror image of its twin at 41-18, under one unbroken roofline
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The five-bay, three-story building has a slightly recessed central tower with a low pediment-shaped gable rising above the flat roof, and its main door sits in that tower behind a round-headed surround. It mirrors 41-18 48th Street to the south, the pair sharing one continuous flat roofline, and its windows sit in paired and single openings above a soldier-bond string course. Its windows, door and entrance awning have since been replaced or removed, and the parapet resurfaced in stucco.
“…bordered to the south by 41-18 48th Street, of which it is a mirror image; main entrance in central tower…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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