1857 Putnam Avenue

also 5807 Putnam Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1911
G. X. Mathews builds 1857 Putnam Avenue, which still has its paired wood-and-glass front doors
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Louis Allmendinger designed this flats building in 1911 for developer G. X. Mathews, as one of a group of eight on the west side of the block. Its pale yellow brick front sits on an amber-brick base, with a carved limestone doorway under a bracketed, pedimented hood. The landmarks survey found the historic double doors of wood and glass still in place, though the stoop had been replaced in brick and cast stone and the windows in aluminum. The stuccoed back wall, with its fire escape, may also be visible from the M train's Forest Avenue platform.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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