Sunnyside Gardens, Queens
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Sunnyside Gardens is a planned residential community and historic district in the Sunnyside neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City. Built between 1924 and 1928 by the City Housing Corp
A shared interior garden court in 1924, soon after the first phase of construction
Henry Wright, c. 1920, co-planner of Sunnyside Gardens with Clarence Stein
The interior courtyard of the Phipps Garden Apartments, photographed in 1940 by Samuel Gottscho for the Library of Congress
Central garden at the Phipps Garden Apartments (1931), designed by Clarence Stein with Isadore Rosenfield of his office, and landscaped by Marjorie Sewell Cautley
Phipps Garden Apartments
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Phipps Garden Apartments is an affordable apartment complex in Sunnyside, Queens, New York City. It was built by the Society of Phipps Houses, a model-tenement philanthropy, on land at the northeaster
Sunnyside Gardens, Queens
…Commission on June 26, 2007. The district encompasses more than 600 buildings on all or part of 16 city blocks, including 12 named courts and the Phipps Garden Apartments, a pair of Stein-designed apartment complexes built for the Society of Phipps Houses in 1931–1932 and 1935. Stein and Wright extended the Sunnyside…
The first group's south facade and street trees in 1940
The first group's main garden court in 1940