1830 Woodbine 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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- 1907
Builder Gustave Matheis, who will develop 1830 Woodbine Street, takes the name Mathews
Gustave Xavier Matheis, born in Rodalben in Germany's Palatinate in 1871, came to New York with his parents and four brothers in 1886 and learned building from his father-in-law, Bushwick builder Louis Kuntz. In 1907 he legally changed his surname to Mathews. He went on to build this row and many others, and died in 1958 at 88 after more than fifty years building in Queens.
“G. X. Matheis legally changed, or “Americanized,” his name to Mathews in 1907.”
- 1913
Developer G. X. Mathews puts up 1830 Woodbine Street as part of a seven-house group
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Permit NB 1003-13 covered seven houses on the east side of Woodbine Street between Seneca and Onderdonk Avenues, numbered 1820 through 1832, and 1830 is one of them. G. X. Mathews developed the group in 1913 to designs by Louis Allmendinger, who used Renaissance and Romanesque Revival details. The row ends at 1832 Woodbine, also known as 754 Onderdonk Avenue.
- 2010
1830 Woodbine Street has lost its original stoop by the time of its 2010 landmarking
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The 2010 designation report found the house's four-bay yellow brick front, projecting first bay and swagged cornice intact, but its entrance much changed. A concrete and cast-stone stoop had replaced the original, an aluminum-and-glass door with a sidelight and a metal awning marked the entry, and a satellite dish sat on the roof. The rear was painted grey, with a metal fire escape.
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