47-17 43rd Avenue

also 41-52 48th 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
Clarence Stein's Colonial Court, home of this corner house, opens as a community of its own
This house stands in Colonial Court, which architect Clarence Stein described as the first unit of Sunnyside, built in 1924 and planned as a separate community. The court took up a full city block plus part of the next one and held 48 row houses in seven rows along with six paired apartment buildings. Its six house designs were built as one- and two-family homes.
“Colonial Court, “the first unit built in 1924, was designed as a separate community.”…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2007
Surveyors find this gabled end house still keeps its bracketed wood door hood
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At the end of its row, 47-17 is a Type D' house with an asphalt-shingled roof and a window in its gable. The 2007 landmark survey found it had kept its historic bracketed wood hood and door surround, with a "43rd Ave" sign on the first floor. Brick posts topped by cast-stone finials and an iron fence enclose a concrete-paved front yard with a small planting bed.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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