1881 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1911
Gustave Mathews agrees to buy the Meyerrose farm, ending its run as a ballpark
Most of the land in today's Ridgewood South Historic District had been the Meyerrose farm, bought from Onderdonk descendants in 1864. From 1907 to 1911 part of the farm served as Meyerrose Park, a baseball field used by Brooklyn's Atlantic League club, a semi-pro Ridgewood team and for a time the Brooklyn Royal Giants of the Negro leagues, as well as for soccer and cricket. The 1911 season was its last: that February builder Gustave Mathews agreed to buy the farm at $20,000 an acre, a record for Ridgewood land, and later that year he began building rows like this one on the former farm.
“From 1907 until 1911, a portion of the farm was used as a baseball field, known as “Meyerrose Park.”…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
G. X. Mathews builds 1881 Putnam Avenue as one of nine flats designed by Louis Allmendinger
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In 1911 the G. X. Mathews company filed permit NB 1313-11 for nine buildings at 1867 to 1883 Putnam Avenue, on tax lots 50 down to 35 of Queens block 3471, with Louis Allmendinger as architect. Like the rest of the row, number 1881 mixes Renaissance and Romanesque Revival styles; the last of the nine, at the Woodward Avenue corner, also carries the addresses 788 and 788A Woodward Avenue.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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