1880 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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1. 1911

   G. X. Mathews develops 1880 Putnam Avenue as part of an eight-building row

   This building went up in 1911 with seven neighbors, 1870 through 1884 Putnam Avenue on Queens tax block 3472, under new-building permit NB 1311-11. The developer was G. X. Mathews and the architect Louis Allmendinger, whose design mixes Romanesque Revival arches with Renaissance Revival trim.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1915

   The city shows Mathews Model Flats like 1880 Putnam Avenue at the Panama-Pacific fair

   In 1915 New York's Tenement House Department exhibited the Mathews Model Flats at the Panama-Pacific fair in San Francisco. The type, used for every building in this district, improved on crowded older tenements with private baths, big air shafts, wider lots and a limit of two families per floor, while keeping rents within reach of families of modest income.

   ““Mathews Model Flats” were exhibited by the New York City Tenement House Department at the Panama-Pacific Fair in San Francisco in 1915…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 2010

   1880 Putnam Avenue keeps historic doors and stoop, landmark survey records

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   The Landmarks Preservation Commission's description notes historic paired wood-and-glass doors, a historic bluestone stoop, wood basement windows with grilles and a pale yellow cornice with swags and cartouches. The windows were aluminum, the stoop and base painted gray, and the six-bay rear wall, with its metal fire escape, was stuccoed tan with a satellite dish and an antenna on the roof.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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