1873 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1913

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1913

    G. X. Mathews switches architects for the Madison Street row that includes number 1873

    Louis Allmendinger designed 149 of the 167 tenements G. X. Mathews put up in what is now the Ridgewood South Historic District. Yet building permits name R. George Smart of Ridgewood as architect of the 14 Mathews buildings on the northwest side of Madison Street, 1873 among them. The Landmarks Preservation Commission found little on Smart and could not say why Mathews changed designers; the facades match the other Mathews flats, and the footprints suggest the same floor plans.

    “Department of Buildings permits list R. George Smart of Ridgewood as the filing architect for the 14 buildings constructed by Mathews on the northwest side…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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