1867 Madison 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.
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- 1911
Mathews finances the tract lot by lot with savings-bank mortgages
While buying the Meyerrose farm, G. X. Mathews borrowed $6,500 to $9,000 per lot in builders' mortgages from the Williamsburgh Savings Bank and other lenders. He filed his building permits in groups of eight or nine, with the groups' schedules overlapping. The Landmarks Preservation Commission suggests this let him build out the tract at scale with little capital of his own, paying down each mortgage as finished buildings sold.
- 1913
R. George Smart designs 1867 Madison Street in a row of seven for G. X. Mathews
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Number 1867 Madison Street is the second house covered by permit NB 992-13, filed in 1913 by owner G. X. Mathews with R. George Smart as architect. The seven buildings from 1865 to 1877 stand on lots 43 through 34 of Queens tax block 3470, and the permit records their style as Renaissance and Romanesque Revival.
- 2010
The house keeps its painted double doors, bluestone stoop and areaway gate
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The 2010 survey found 1867 Madison Street with its original paired wood-and-glass doors in a painted finish, a bluestone stoop, wood basement windows and an areaway railing that still had its newel posts and gate. The facade had been cleaned and repointed, the door surround and lower stonework were coated off-white, and the cornice was painted off-white as well.
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