1869 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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- 1913
Smart and Mathews put up 1869 Madison Street as the third flat in a 1913 row
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Number 1869 Madison Street was the third of seven buildings in permit NB 992-13, filed in 1913 with G. X. Mathews as owner and R. George Smart as architect. The row stands on lots 43 through 34 of Queens tax block 3470, and the permit records its style as Renaissance and Romanesque Revival.
- 1915
The city shows the Mathews Model Flats at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific fair
Mathews's flats, with private bathrooms, large air shafts and no more than two families per floor, were a marked improvement on older tenements. In 1915 the New York City Tenement House Department exhibited the Mathews Model Flats at the Panama-Pacific fair in San Francisco, and the type became a standard for later tenement construction.
“…the “Mathews Model Flats” were exhibited by the New York City Tenement House Department at the Panama-Pacific Fair in San Francisco in 1915…”
- 2010
The house has a rebuilt stoop but keeps its painted double doors and areaway gate
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The 2010 survey recorded original paired wood-and-glass doors with a painted finish, wood basement windows with screens and an areaway railing with its newel posts and gate at 1869 Madison Street. The original stoop had been replaced in brick and cast stone with a new railing, and the door surround, basement steps and lower stonework were painted grey.
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