1854 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.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1864
Bremen-born farmer Joachim Meyerrose buys the farmland Mathews later builds this row on
Before Mathews built here, the bulk of what is now the Ridgewood South Historic District was farmland that descendants of Adrian and Ann Wyckoff Onderdonk sold to Joachim Meyerrose in 1864. Meyerrose had come to Newtown from Bremen in 1844 and farmed the land with his sons; his son Joseph kept working it after his father retired. Mathews bought the Meyerrose property and built this row on it in 1913.
“…sold the southernmost portion of the farm, including the bulk of the property in the historic district, to Joachim Meyerrose in 1864…”
- 1913
G. X. Mathews builds 1854 Woodbine Street, part of an eight-house row past Onderdonk Avenue
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In 1913 developer G. X. Mathews filed permit NB 1006-13 for eight houses on the east side of Woodbine Street between Onderdonk and Woodward Avenues, numbered 1852 to 1866. 1854 Woodbine sits second from the Onderdonk corner. Like the rest of the row it was designed by Louis Allmendinger in a Renaissance and Romanesque Revival manner.
- 2010
At designation in 2010, 1854 Woodbine Street has vinyl windows and a replacement stoop
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The 2010 landmark survey describes a four-bay front of pale yellow brick over an amber base, its last bay projecting, with a limestone door surround and a cornice painted yellow and brown. Vinyl windows filled every opening, a newer brick-and-cast-stone stoop had replaced the original, and a basement hatch had been cut in. Behind, a stuccoed rear wall carried a fire escape and clothesline.
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