1858 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.
- 1911
Gustave Mathews agrees to pay a record $400,000 for the Meyerrose farm, where he builds this row
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In February 1911 newspapers reported that G. X. Mathews would buy the whole Meyerrose farm for $400,000, or $20,000 an acre, a record for Ridgewood land. Deeds show he took title in half- and quarter-block pieces starting that August, financing each lot with mortgages and filing building permits in groups of eight or nine houses. This row's permit, NB 1006-13, was one of those groups.
“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…”
- 1913
Mathews and architect Louis Allmendinger complete 1858 Woodbine Street
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Developer G. X. Mathews built 1858 Woodbine Street in 1913, on a tax lot of Queens Block 3470, as one of the eight-house row at 1852-1866 Woodbine filed under NB 1006-13. Louis Allmendinger was the architect, working in the Renaissance and Romanesque Revival styles used throughout the row.
- 2010
1858 Woodbine Street keeps its historic areaway railing into the 2010s
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The 2010 designation report records an off-white cornice with swags and cartouches and a historic areaway railing and newel posts, partly stripped of details, at 1858 Woodbine. Two metal signs hung on the facade, the windows were aluminum, the stoop had been rebuilt in brick and cast stone, and a satellite dish was on the roof.
“…historic areaway railing and newel posts with some details removed. Alterations: Aluminum windows in all openings; wires and two metal signs at facade…”
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