Phipps Garden Apartments

Phipps Garden Apartments is an apartment complex in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York City. It was built in 1931 by Phipps Houses, a philanthropic organization of the Phipps family to build model tenements for working-class families, along with Henry Wright of Sunnyside Gardens.[1] It is located on 39th Avenue between 50th and 52nd Streets, adjacent to Sunnyside Gardens Park and Sunnyside Yard. Designed by Clarence Stein,[2] The brick buildings feature intricate brick work and curved steel fire escapes. The buildings enclose a landscaped courtyard by landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley.

Phipps Garden Apartments, 5101 39th Ave
Central garden

A second, northern group of buildings was built between the first units and the Sunnyside Yard railroad tracks to the north in the late 1930s. Originally, there was a children's playground across the street, also designed by Cautley, but Phipps closed it by the 1990s. In 2007, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Phipps Garden Apartments as part of the Sunnyside Gardens Historic District.[3]

References
  1. Mozingo, Louise A.; Jewell, Linda L. (2012). Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice. McFarland. p. 143. ISBN 9780786461646. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  2. Plunz, Richard (1990). A History of Housing in New York City. Columbia University Press. p. 160. ISBN 9780231062978. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  3. "Sunnyside Gardens Designation Report" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. June 26, 2007. Retrieved November 10, 2019.

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