Yellow brick
A distinct material marks this individual apartment house.
GROUP 07 OF 12 · SOUTH SIDE
21-48
45th Avenue
The yellow-brick apartment house.
A historic profile, not a current listing.
- Recorded construction
- 1889
- Historic group
- 1 building
- Architectural description
- Vernacular apartment house
- Recorded materials
- Yellow brick
Architectural details & original record
READ THE ARCHITECTURE
What sets this group apart.
LPC described this building as a three-story yellow-brick apartment house over a basement. It introduces a different residential form among the district’s repeated rows.
Bracketed cornice
Projecting brackets articulate the roofline.
Simple lintels
Plain horizontal window heads keep the façade restrained.
Features recorded by LPC in 1968; current conditions may differ. Read the original record ↗
PUT IT IN CONTEXT
Its place on the block.
21-48 45th Avenue
South side · Hunters Point Historic District
Compare a neighboring group
A USEFUL COMPARISON
Compare apartment-house forms.
21-42–21-46 45th Avenue
Queen Anne bays in brick and stone · 1889
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