1879 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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1. 1911

   G. X. Mathews completes the row that includes 1879 Putnam Avenue

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   The Department of Buildings permit NB 1313-11 of 1911 covered nine buildings on Queens tax block 3471, 1867 through 1883 Putnam Avenue, including this one. G. X. Mathews was the original owner and developer, and Louis Allmendinger was the architect; the facades blend Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival forms.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1958

   Gustave X. Mathews, developer of 1879 Putnam Avenue, dies at 88 after half a century of building

   Gustave Xavier Mathews was born in 1871 in Rodalben in Germany's Palatinate and came to the United States with his parents and four brothers in 1886. He learned building from his father-in-law, Louis Kuntz, a prominent Bushwick-Ridgewood builder, and changed his surname from Matheis to Mathews in 1907. He died in 1958 at 88 after more than fifty years as a builder and developer in Queens.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 2010

   1879 Putnam Avenue retains its bluestone stoop and original paired doors

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   In its description for the 2010 historic district, the Landmarks Preservation Commission noted that this house still had historic brick moldings around its windows, historic paired wood-and-glass doors with a painted finish, and its historic bluestone stoop and railing. The windows had been replaced in vinyl, and the six-bay rear wall, which has a metal fire escape, was covered in tan stucco.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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