1865 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1911
G. X. Mathews files plans for 1865 Putnam Avenue as the last house in an eight-building row
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In 1911 the developer G. X. Mathews filed permit NB 1312-11 for eight flats houses on the west side of Putnam Avenue, from number 1851 at the Onderdonk Avenue corner up to 1865, on Queens tax block 3471. Louis Allmendinger drew the designs, blending Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival features. Number 1865 stands on lot 52, the final lot in the group.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
Landmarks survey finds 1865 Putnam Avenue still has its bluestone stoop and wood-grained double doors
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The 2010 Ridgewood South Historic District report found this house keeping its original bluestone stoop and railing, its paired wood-and-glass front doors finished to look like wood grain, and old grilles over two basement windows. A brown-painted cornice with swags and cartouches crowns the yellow and amber brick front. Its windows had since been replaced in aluminum and its stoop and stonework painted brown; the report notes the back of the house may be visible from the M train's Forest Avenue platform.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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