1875 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
1875 Putnam Avenue rises in 1911 as one of nine Mathews flats on the block
This building is part of a row of nine, 1867 through 1883 Putnam Avenue, that G. X. Mathews built in 1911 under permit NB 1313-11 on tax block 3471. Architect Louis Allmendinger drew the designs, pairing Romanesque Revival arches with Renaissance Revival stonework.
- 1918
City tenement official urges Mathews Model Flats, the type of 1875 Putnam Avenue, for shipyard workers
On January 23, 1918, a commissioner of New York's Tenement House Department wrote a letter recommending the Mathews Model Flats, the building type of this house, to relieve the housing shortage among U.S. Government shipyard employees. The letter noted that the design had become a standard in Queens, followed by the Mathews Company and by other builders as well.
“…recommended “Mathews Model Flats” as a solution to the shortage of housing for U.S. Government shipyard employees…”
- 2010
1875 Putnam Avenue keeps paired wood-and-glass doors, the 2010 landmark survey notes
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's description of the house found its paired wood-and-glass entrance doors with a wood-grain finish, wood basement windows fitted with grilles, a light grey cornice with swags and cartouches, and part of the historic areaway railing. Later changes included aluminum windows throughout, a new stoop of brick and cast stone, gray paint on the stonework of the lower floors and green paint on the basement sills.
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