1877 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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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.

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  1. 1911

    Louis Allmendinger designs 1877 Putnam Avenue for developer G. X. Mathews

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    Built in 1911, 1877 Putnam Avenue belongs to a nine-building row from 1867 to 1883 Putnam Avenue filed under permit NB 1313-11 on Queens tax block 3471. The original owner and developer was G. X. Mathews, and the architect Louis Allmendinger gave the group Renaissance and Romanesque Revival details.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1911

    Cooper Union graduate Louis Allmendinger draws most of the Mathews flats around 1877 Putnam Avenue

    Building permits show Louis Allmendinger designed 149 of the 167 buildings the G. X. Mathews Company erected in what became the Ridgewood South Historic District. Born in Brooklyn in 1878 to a brewer who had emigrated from Germany, he studied at the Cooper Union, opened his own firm in 1922 specializing in industrial and commercial work, and also designed Brooklyn's Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. He died in 1937.

    “…most (149 of 167) buildings constructed in the Ridgewood South Historic District by the G. X. Mathews Company were designed by architect Louis Allmendinger…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2010

    1877 Putnam Avenue keeps its historic areaway railing and newel posts, landmark survey finds

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    The Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded the house's historic areaway railing and newel posts, though with some details missing, along with wood basement windows behind screens and a light grey cornice with swags and cartouches. By then the first floor had wood windows with storm sash, the upper floors aluminum replacements, and the entrance a newer wood-and-glass door with a sidelight and transom above a rebuilt brick and cast-stone stoop.

    “…historic areaway railing and newel posts with some details removed…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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