1864 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1911

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1. 1911

   Louis Allmendinger designs 1864 Madison Street for G. X. Mathews in a permit for nine flats

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   The G. X. Mathews Company filed permit NB 2318-11 in 1911 for nine buildings on the east side of Madison Street, from the Onderdonk Avenue corner at 1852 through 1868. Louis Allmendinger was the architect, and the group mixes Renaissance and Romanesque Revival styles. Number 1864, the seventh of the nine, has pale yellow brick on an amber-brick base, a carved limestone entrance surround under a pedimented door hood and a modillioned cornice with swags and cartouches.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1911

   Brooklyn-born architect Louis Allmendinger, son of a brewer, draws the Mathews flats

   Louis Allmendinger (1878-1937), born in Brooklyn to a German immigrant brewer and trained at the Cooper Union, designed 149 of the 167 buildings Mathews put up in this district. He later opened his own firm in 1922, focused on industrial and commercial work, and designed the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Brooklyn and, with partner M. Allen Schlendorf, the J. Kurtz & Sons store in Queens.

   “…most (149 of 167) buildings constructed in the Ridgewood South Historic District by the G. X. Mathews Company were designed by architect Louis Allmendinger…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 2010

   The house still has its bluestone stoop, painted double doors and under-stoop railing

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   When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described 1864 Madison Street in 2010, it kept its original bluestone stoop and railing, paired wood-and-glass doors with a painted finish, its historic railing at the entry under the stoop and its areaway railing and newel posts, though some details were gone. Aluminum windows had replaced the originals in every opening, and wires and conduit ran across the front.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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