44-12 Barnett Avenue

also 44-12 39th Avenue | Sunnyside | built 1926

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

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1926
44-12 Barnett Avenue is built as half of a Lincoln Court pair facing a garden
This two-story, flat-roofed row house went up in 1926 with its neighbor 44-14 as a mirror-image pair in Lincoln Court, Sunnyside Gardens. Their front façades face the interior garden court rather than the street, with projecting bay windows, soldier-brick coursing and geometric brickwork at the parapet. The rear façades are the ones that look onto Barnett Avenue.
“Row of two, two-story, flat roof row houses, one type and its mirror image, R', R, which face the interior garden court.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Lincoln Court gives its 78 houses private yards plus shared garden courts
Lincoln Court fills the block between 39th Avenue, 45th Street, Skillman Avenue and 44th Street with 78 row houses. Three interior garden courts lie between paired rows, and the two Barnett Avenue houses at the north end face a fourth path running from 45th Street along the northernmost garden. Every house has its own front and rear yard as well as the shared courts.
“…the two row houses with Barnett Avenue addresses face the northernmost, fourth path…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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