1868 Madison Street
Ridgewood | built 1911
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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
Number 1868 closes out the row of nine flats Allmendinger designed for Mathews
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Permit NB 2318-11 of 1911 covered nine G. X. Mathews flats on the east side of Madison Street, from 1852 at the Onderdonk Avenue corner to 1868, the last in the group, on lot 16 of tax block 3471. Louis Allmendinger was the architect, and the style was a Renaissance and Romanesque Revival blend.
“1852 (aka 775, 777 Onderdonk Avenue), 1854, 1856, 1858, 1860, 1862, 1864, 1866, 1868 Madison Street…”
- 1911
German-born builder Gustave X. Mathews, once Matheis, develops the block
The developer, Gustave Xavier Mathews, was born in Rodalben in the Palatinate in 1871 and came to New York with his family in 1886. He learned building from his father-in-law, Bushwick builder Louis Kuntz, legally changed his surname from Matheis to Mathews in 1907, and died in 1958 at 88. His four sons with his first wife, Clara Kuntz, later joined the business.
- 2010
The basement gets glass block and the stoop is rebuilt, but the old doors remain
In the 2010 survey, 1868 Madison Street still had paired wood-and-glass doors with a wood-grain finish, its stoop railing and wood basement windows in two bays. Its facade had been cleaned and repointed, the stoop rebuilt in brick and cast stone, the stonework painted grey, and two basement window bays filled in with glass block.
“…glass block infill in first and second bays at basement…”
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- 1864 Madison Street3 entries
- 1872 Madison Street1 entry
- 1862 Madison Street3 entries
- 1874 Madison Street1 entry