1822 Woodbine Street

Ridgewood | built 1913

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 files plans for 1822 Woodbine Street in a seven-house row by Louis Allmendinger
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The row from 1820 to 1832 Woodbine Street, which ends at 754 Onderdonk Avenue, went up in 1913 under permit NB 1003-13, with G. X. Mathews as owner and Louis Allmendinger as architect, in a mix of Renaissance and Romanesque Revival styles. At 1822 the west-facing front keeps its original paired wood-and-glass doors and bluestone stoop, along with wood basement windows fitted with wood storm sashes. By the 2010 designation the upper windows had been changed to vinyl and the stoop resurfaced in grey.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
Gustave X. Mathews, a builder from the Palatinate who learned the trade from his father-in-law, develops the row
Gustave Xavier Mathews, born in Rodalben in the German Palatinate in 1871, came to New York in 1886 with his parents, Xavier and Rosa Matheis, and his brothers. He learned building from his father-in-law, the Bushwick-Ridgewood builder Louis Kuntz, and in 1907 legally changed his name from Matheis to Mathews. As president of the G. X. Mathews Company, which built this row in 1913, he became Ridgewood's best-known builder and kept working in Queens for more than half a century before his death in 1958 at age 88.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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