1874 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1911
G. X. Mathews builds 1874 Putnam Avenue in a row of eight flats
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This building is one of eight, 1870 through 1884 Putnam Avenue on Queens tax block 3472, filed in 1911 under new-building permit NB 1311-11. The developer and first owner was G. X. Mathews and the architect Louis Allmendinger, who used Renaissance and Romanesque Revival details.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Six-family Mathews flats like 1874 Putnam Avenue sell for about $11,000
Newspapers reported that the six-family brick buildings in this district sold for about $11,000, or up to $18,500 with ground-floor stores. A buyer with $2,000 in cash could take a first and second mortgage, live in one apartment, and use the rent from the other five to pay the mortgage interest, taxes, water and insurance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
Landmark survey records 1874 Putnam Avenue's paired doors and tan cornice
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2010 description lists paired wood-and-glass doors with a wood-grain finish, a stoop railing in historic style, wood basement windows with grilles, and a tan cornice with swags and cartouches. Alterations included aluminum windows, a new brick and cast-stone stoop, brown paint on the stonework of the base and an antenna on the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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