1859 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1913

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1913

    G. X. Mathews puts up 1859 Madison Street in 1913 from plans by R. George Smart

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    Developer G. X. Mathews built 1859 Madison Street in 1913 under new-building permit NB 991-13, with R. George Smart as architect. It belongs to a run of seven tenements, 1851 to 1863 Madison Street, on the west side of the street between Onderdonk and Woodward Avenues, standing on Lot 48 of Queens tax block 3470. The Landmarks Preservation Commission classes its style as Renaissance and Romanesque Revival.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1913

    Mathews finances 1859 Madison Street and its neighbors with mortgages, selling buildings as they are finished

    G. X. Mathews developed the Meyerrose tract on borrowed money. He gave the Meyerrose heirs purchase mortgages of $1,000 a lot and took builders' mortgages of $6,500 to $9,000 a lot from the Williamsburgh Savings Bank and other lenders. Permits were filed in batches of eight or nine buildings with overlapping schedules; 1859 Madison Street came in a 1913 batch. The Landmarks Preservation Commission concludes this probably let him build on a large scale without much capital, selling buildings as they were finished and paying off the loans.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1913

    1859 Madison Street keeps its bluestone stoop, and its roof is in view of the M train

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    1859 Madison Street has the row's pale yellow brick front on an amber-brick base, a carved limestone doorway with a bracketed pediment, recessed brick panels at the first floor and a grey-painted cornice with swags and cartouches. The bluestone stoop and the areaway railing and newel posts are historic. Aluminum windows, a newer door with sidelight and transom, and a metal awning were added later. Its roof can be seen from the elevated M line at the Forest Avenue station.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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