41-52 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
Flat-roofed end house closes a 1924 Colonial Court row on 47th Street
41-52 is one end of a row of seven two-story houses at 41-36 to 41-52 47th Street, dated 1924 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and counted as part of Colonial Court. The five houses in the middle have gabled slate roofs, but the two at the ends, this one included, have flat roofs with simple parapets capped in cast stone and are set back from the line of the street wall. The commission labels this house design type D.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
House on the west side of 47th Street gets private gardens instead of a shared court
Most Colonial Court homes back onto a shared central court that was first laid out with planted gardens, tennis courts and places for children to play. Houses on the west side of 47th Street, including 41-52, occupy only part of their block, so the Landmarks Preservation Commission notes they have their own front and rear gardens with no interior court behind them. On the main block across the street, much of the old common court has since been fenced off into individual yards.
“…buildings on the west side of 47th Street have private front and rear gardens, but do not face an interior garden court at the rear.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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