1824 Putnam Avenue

also 5724 Putnam Avenue | 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
Louis Allmendinger designs 1824 Putnam Avenue for builder G. X. Mathews
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Permit NB 1011-13, filed in 1913, covered 1824 Putnam Avenue and six other buildings in the row from 1820 to 1834, with G. X. Mathews as original owner and developer and Louis Allmendinger as architect. The LPC places 1824 on lot 24 of block 3463 and describes the row as Renaissance and Romanesque Revival.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
1824 Putnam Avenue still has historic brick molds, paired doors and part of its stoop railing
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1824 keeps historic brick molds around its double-hung windows, along with paired wood-and-glass doors in a wood-grain finish and an old stoop railing whose newel posts are gone. The front is pale yellow brick over an amber base, with a tan dentiled and modillioned cornice. Alterations listed by the LPC include vinyl windows at the first floor and in two upper bays, aluminum storms, a metal entry awning and a new brick and cast-stone stoop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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