1831 Madison Street

also 770 Onderdonk Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1913

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1911
February
G. X. Mathews agrees to buy the Meyerrose Farm, the land under this corner
In February 1911 Gustave X. Mathews agreed to buy the whole Meyerrose Farm, including this corner, for a reported $400,000, or $20,000 an acre, a record for Ridgewood land. He took title in pieces from August 1911 onward and filed building permits in groups of eight or nine. The Landmarks Preservation Commission suggests this likely let him sell finished tenements and pay off mortgages as he went rather than tying up a huge sum of capital.
“G. X. Mathews agreed to purchase the entire Meyerrose Farm in February of 1911, at the reported price of $400,000 or $20,000 per acre…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
1831 Madison Street is built as a corner tenement with shops on Onderdonk Avenue
This corner building where Madison Street meets Onderdonk Avenue, also numbered 770 Onderdonk Avenue, was built in 1913 for G. X. Mathews to plans by Louis Allmendinger. Its long nine-bay side faces Onderdonk Avenue and has storefronts at street level. It kept wood windows on its upper floors, historic pressed-metal cornices and decorative brickwork at the storefronts, and two historic metal fire escapes.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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