1876 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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1. 1911

   1876 Putnam Avenue goes up in 1911 in a Mathews row of eight

   Permit NB 1311-11, filed in 1911, covered this building and seven neighbors from 1870 to 1884 Putnam Avenue on tax block 3472. G. X. Mathews developed the row and Louis Allmendinger designed it in a blend of the Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival styles.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1911

   Mathews agrees to buy the old Meyerrose farm, where 1876 Putnam Avenue would rise

   In 1911 the G. X. Mathews Company agreed to buy the former Meyerrose farm, the land now forming the Ridgewood South Historic District, and built close to 170 model tenements there. That year the company received a quarter of all tenement house certificates issued in Queens, and in 1915 the city's Tenement House Department was holding up the Mathews flats as an up-to-date, low-cost way of housing the masses.

   “…the company agreed to purchase the old Meyerrose farm, the site of the Ridgewood South Historic District, in 1911…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 2010

   1876 Putnam Avenue keeps its historic bluestone stoop and paired entrance doors

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   When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the house in 2010, it still had historic paired wood-and-glass doors with a wood-grain finish, a historic bluestone stoop and an off-white cornice with swags and cartouches. The front had been cleaned and repointed, the windows replaced in aluminum, a metal stoop railing added and the stoop resurfaced in gray; the rear wall was stuccoed light gray.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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