1819 Woodbine Street

Ridgewood | built 1913

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1913
G. X. Mathews builds 1819 Woodbine Street in a second wave of Allmendinger flats
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Two years after his first Putnam Avenue rows, G. X. Mathews filed permit NB 1008-13 in 1913 for seven buildings at 1819 to 1835 Woodbine Street, again designed by Louis Allmendinger in Romanesque and Renaissance Revival styles. Number 1819 has a four-bay pale yellow brick front with a projecting first bay, amber brick arches over the upper windows and a carved limestone entry that still holds historic paired wood-and-glass doors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1918
A city housing official holds up Mathews Model Flats like this one as a fix for wartime shipyard housing
On January 23, 1918, a Tenement House Department commissioner wrote recommending Mathews Model Flats to ease the housing shortage for U.S. Government shipyard workers. The letter said the design had become a standard in Queens, used by the Mathews company and by other builders alike. Apartments in the flats typically rented as soon as they were finished, often with a waiting list.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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