1819 Putnam Avenue

also 5719 Putnam Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1913

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1911

    February

    Gustave Mathews agrees to buy the Meyerrose farm, where 1819 Putnam Avenue would rise

    In February 1911 Gustave X. Mathews agreed to buy the whole Meyerrose Farm for a reported $400,000, or $20,000 an acre, then a record for Ridgewood land. He took title in half-block and quarter-block pieces starting that August and filed building permits in batches of eight or nine. The report lists permit NB 1004-13, which covers 1819 Putnam Avenue, among the Mathews buildings on the former Meyerrose property.

    “G. X. Mathews agreed to purchase the entire Meyerrose Farm in February of 1911, at the reported price of $400,000…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1913

    The G. X. Mathews Company builds 1819 Putnam Avenue at the head of a seven-house row

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    1819 Putnam Avenue is the first of seven tenements, 1819 to 1835 Putnam Avenue, that the report dates to 1913 under permit NB 1004-13, built for G. X. Mathews and designed by Louis Allmendinger. The row runs along the west side of Putnam Avenue between Seneca and Onderdonk Avenues, on lots 34 to 43 of Queens tax block 3462.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2010

    1819 Putnam Avenue keeps its bluestone stoop and a cornice with swags and cartouches

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    1819 Putnam Avenue has a four-bay front with a projecting first bay, recessed pale yellow brick panels at the first floor, and a cornice with swags and cartouches painted pale yellow. The 2010 survey recorded its historic bluestone stoop and railing and, along the side, a concrete yard behind a historic metal gate. Changes include a cleaned and repointed facade, aluminum windows, an awning and a new door with sidelight and transom.

    “…historic bluestone stoop and railing ... concrete side yard with historic metal gate…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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