1858 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1911

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1. 1911

   G. X. Mathews builds 1858 Madison Street in 1911 to a design by Louis Allmendinger

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   1858 Madison Street went up in 1911 for developer G. X. Mathews under permit NB 2318-11, designed by architect Louis Allmendinger. It is one of nine tenements, 1852 to 1868 Madison Street, lining the east side of the block between Onderdonk and Woodward Avenues, and it occupies Lot 6 of Queens tax block 3471. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes its style as Renaissance and Romanesque Revival.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1911

   Mathews gets a quarter of Queens' tenement certificates in the year 1858 Madison Street is begun

   In 1911, the year it began this row on Madison Street, the G. X. Mathews Company was issued one in four of all the tenement house certificates granted in Queens. That year Mathews also agreed to buy the old Meyerrose farm, where he built almost 170 model tenements, 1858 Madison Street among them. By the mid-1910s little open land remained in Ridgewood, and the company turned to Astoria, Woodhaven, Corona and Long Island City.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1911

   1858 Madison Street keeps its basement railing while its stoop is rebuilt in brick

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   Like its neighbors, 1858 Madison Street has a pale yellow brick front on an amber-brick base, amber brick arches over the windows, a carved limestone doorway with a bracketed pediment and a cornice decorated with swags and cartouches, now painted grey. A historic railing survives at the basement entry, and part of the historic areaway railing remains. Vinyl windows, a newer door with sidelights and transom, grey paint on all the stonework and a brick-and-cast-stone stoop are later changes.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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