1865 Madison Street
Ridgewood | built 1913
Open on the map3 entries
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
G. X. Mathews agrees to buy the Meyerrose farm, where this house will rise, for $400,000
In February 1911 newspapers reported that G. X. Mathews had agreed to buy the whole Meyerrose Farm for $400,000, or $20,000 an acre, a record for Ridgewood land. Deed records show he actually acquired it piece by piece, in half-block and quarter-block parcels, starting that August, paying the Meyerrose heirs with $1,000 purchase mortgages per lot.
“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 files a seven-house permit that begins with 1865 Madison Street
Permit NB 992-13, filed in 1913, covered the seven flats from 1865 to 1877 Madison Street, with G. X. Mathews as owner and R. George Smart as architect. A companion permit, NB 991-13, covered the seven houses south to Onderdonk Avenue. Number 1865 has the same Renaissance and Romanesque Revival front as its neighbors, with a five-bay base, arched amber-brick lintels and a cornice trimmed with swags and cartouches.
- 2010
The front has been cleaned and repointed and the stoop rebuilt in brick and cast stone
By the 2010 survey the facade of 1865 Madison Street had been cleaned and repointed and its original stoop replaced with one of brick and cast stone with a new railing. A new wood-and-glass door with sidelights and a transom had gone in, the base stonework was painted tan, and the basement had a new wood door and railing. The rear wall was stuccoed light grey, with graffiti on the roof.
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