1854 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1911

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1911
1854 Madison Street is built in Allmendinger's row and keeps its historic bluestone stoop
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Louis Allmendinger designed No. 1854 for G. X. Mathews in 1911 as part of a nine-building row on the east side of Madison Street between Onderdonk and Woodward avenues. Its four-bay facade of pale yellow brick projects at the last bay. When the district was surveyed, the house still had its paired wood-and-glass doors, bluestone stoop and railing, and areaway railing and newel posts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1915
Mathews reports nearly all of his Meyerrose Farm tenements sold, this row among them
The G. X. Mathews Company was finishing its work on the old Meyerrose Farm, which included 1854 Madison Street. According to The Newtown Register of April 29, 1915, the company reported that 153 of the 167 tenements it had built there were already sold.
“…the G. X. Mathews Company reported that 153 of the 167 tenements built in the district had already been sold.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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