1870 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1911

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1. 1911

   Allmendinger's 1911 permit for eight flats begins at 1870 Madison Street and runs to Woodward Avenue

   The G. X. Mathews Company filed NB 2317-11 in 1911 for eight flats from 1870 Madison Street north to the Woodward Avenue corner, with Louis Allmendinger as architect. Number 1870 is the first in that group, on lot 18 of Queens tax block 3471, and the corner building at the far end also carries the numbers 778 and 784 Woodward Avenue.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1911

   Mathews takes a quarter of all Queens tenement certificates in the year this row is filed

   In 1911, the year it agreed to buy the Meyerrose farm, the G. X. Mathews Company received 25 percent of the tenement house certificates issued in Queens. It built almost 170 model tenements on the old Meyerrose farm. In 1915 the city's Tenement House Department called the Mathews flats the most up-to-date way to house the masses at minimum cost, and rival builders copied them.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 2010

   Stonework at 1870 is painted cream and its stoop rebuilt, while the areaway gate survives

   At the 2010 survey, 1870 Madison Street still had its carved limestone entrance surround, a wood-and-glass basement door, basement windows with screens, an under-stoop entry with its original railing and an areaway railing with newel posts and gate. New paired doors and a brick-and-cast-stone stoop had replaced the originals, and the stonework of the first floor and base was painted cream.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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