44-78 23rd Street

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

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1887
No. 44-78 goes up as one of five bow-fronted houses, the only one with a bay window on 45th Avenue
No. 44-78 belongs to a row of five houses on 23rd Street, numbered 44-70 through 44-78, built in 1887. Each stands two stories over a full basement, three windows wide, with two of those windows in a shallow bow front set with three terra-cotta relief tiles. This house is the only one of the five given a sheet-metal bay window on its 45th Avenue side. The Landmarks Preservation Commission described the row as modified Romanesque Revival under Classical cornices.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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