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Phipps Garden Apartments · 51-01 39th Avenue
Phipps Garden Apartments
Phipps Garden Apartments

Sunnyside. Phipps garden apartments. Exterior entrance

IMAGE DATE1932
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Phipps Garden Apartments, 1932.

The Phipps Garden building is notable for architect Clarence Stein’s use of decorative brick in the facade, inspired by German and Dutch housing developments of the 1920s.

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