47-06 Skillman Avenue

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
Stein and Wright give Sunnyside's first-year houses brick bearing walls and simple Colonial Revival wood trim
Houses like this one, built in Sunnyside Gardens' first year of construction, have load-bearing brick walls; later buildings used steel frames behind face brick. Every building was clad in inexpensive, low-maintenance Hudson River brick. In the early buildings, door surrounds, porches and other ornament were made of wood in a plain Colonial Revival manner, a style the designers thought residents would find familiar and reassuring, since so many of their other ideas were unusual.
“Buildings constructed during the first year of development at Sunnyside were built with brick bearing walls…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
By 2007 the porch of 47-06 Skillman Avenue is closed in with wood and vinyl siding
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47-06 Skillman Avenue is a type F row house in Colonial Court. By the 2007 landmark survey its porch had been closed in with wood and vinyl siding, two windows and a door, and the second-floor terrace above it carried a corrugated metal awning on iron supports. The basement entrance had a wood and corrugated metal enclosure.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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