1820 Madison Street
Ridgewood | built 1913
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1913
G. X. Mathews builds 1820 Madison Street in a seven-building row on the street's east side
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Permit NB 1007-13, filed in 1913, covered seven buildings on the east side of Madison Street between Seneca and Onderdonk Avenues: 1820 through 1830 and the corner building at 1836, also known as 776 and 778 Onderdonk Avenue. 1820 stands on Lot 22 of Queens Block 3462. G. X. Mathews developed the row and Louis Allmendinger designed it in a Renaissance and Romanesque Revival manner.
“1820, 1822, 1824, 1826, 1828, 1830, 1836 Madison Street (aka 776, 778 Onderdonk Avenue) Borough of Queens Tax Map Block 3462; Lot 22…”
- 2010
1820 Madison Street keeps its historic doors, stoop and basement windows in 2010
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The 2010 designation report found historic paired wood-and-glass doors with a wood-grain finish at 1820, a bluestone stoop and railing, and historic wood basement windows behind grilles. The four-bay front has a projecting last bay. On the white-stuccoed south side wall, the first floor still had two-over-two wood windows, and a historic metal gate closed the concrete side yard; the report also noted some graffiti at the base.
“…historic bluestone stoop and railing; historic wood windows with grilles at basement…”
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