1817 Woodbine Street

Ridgewood | built 1900

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1900
A wood-frame house goes up at 1817 Woodbine Street, now the oldest building in Ridgewood South
Built around 1900, this wood-frame house seems to be the oldest surviving building in the Ridgewood South Historic District. By 1906 it belonged to William and Carolina Haug; William, a German-immigrant plasterer, then hired Louis Berger & Co. to design the two buildings on the neighboring lots at 1813 and 1815.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1906
The Haugs likely reface their frame house in masonry to match the new buildings next door
Around the time 1813 and 1815 went up, 1817 was likely given a masonry front to match. No permit for the work has been found, but a loose drawing by architect Adam E. Fischer for William Haug turned up in another Buildings Department file, and atlases show a frame house here in 1903 and a frame house with a masonry front in 1908. Its rear wall, seen from the M train's Seneca Avenue platform, appears to have vinyl or aluminum siding, common on frame houses but unusual on masonry.
“…a 1903 atlas showing a frame building in that location and a later, a 1908 atlas showing a modified frame building with a front portion constructed of masonry…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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