1868 Putnam Avenue
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
Allmendinger designs 1868 Putnam Avenue for Mathews at the north end of a nine-house group
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Number 1868 Putnam Avenue was the last of nine buildings that G. X. Mathews filed for in 1911 under permit NB 1314-11, starting from 1852 at Onderdonk Avenue. The houses occupy lots 1 through 16 on Queens tax block 3472, and architect Louis Allmendinger designed them with Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival details.
- 1911
G. X. Mathews agrees to buy the Meyerrose farm at a record price per acre and starts building flats there
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In February 1911 G. X. Mathews agreed to buy the whole Meyerrose farm for a reported $400,000, or $20,000 an acre, a record for land in Ridgewood. Deeds show he took title in half-block and quarter-block pieces starting that August, giving $1,000-per-lot mortgages to the Meyerrose heirs and borrowing $6,500 to $9,000 per lot from lenders such as the Williamsburgh Savings Bank. He filed building permits in batches of eight or nine, as with this house's group.
“…agreed to purchase the entire Meyerrose Farm in February of 1911, at the reported price of $400,000 or $20,000 per acre…”
- 2010
Survey finds 1868 Putnam Avenue keeping its wood-grained double doors and swagged cornice
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The 2010 Ridgewood South Historic District report found 1868 Putnam Avenue with its historic paired wood-and-glass doors, finished to imitate wood grain, under a carved limestone surround with a pedimented hood. A tan cornice with swags and cartouches and parts of the old areaway railing and newels also survive. The front had been cleaned and repointed, the windows replaced in aluminum, and the stoop rebuilt in brick and cast stone.
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