47-10 Skillman Avenue

also 47-10A 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
47-10 Skillman Avenue is built as Sunnyside's symmetrical type O house, with a door at each end
The middle house of this row of nine is a type O design, four bays wide with an entrance in the first and fourth bays and two six-over-six wood windows between them. Three windows line the second floor. Paneled wood surrounds and bracketed hoods or enclosed wood-and-glass porticos marked the entries. Being symmetrical, the type has no mirror-image version, and the landmark report reproduces a photograph of this house from about 1940.
“Type O – Four-bay row house. The first floor features an entry door at each side of the façade (first and fourth bays)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
By 2007 both entrances of 47-10 Skillman Avenue have brick porches under slate-roofed gables
By the time of the 2007 landmark survey, the two front entries of this house had been closed in with non-historic brick porches topped by hipped, slate-covered gables, with glass-block sidelights beside the doors. The front yard was paved in concrete with a small planting bed edged in railroad ties, and air conditioners had been set through the walls of both floors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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