2001 Woodbine Street

also 711A Fairview Avenue, 715 Fairview Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1930

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1911

   G. X. Mathews builds the corner of Woodbine Street and Fairview Avenue with a store at street level

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   This corner building, also numbered 719 Fairview Avenue, heads a row of six put up in 1911 under permit NB 601-11 for developer G. X. Mathews to designs by architect Louis Allmendinger. The district's side-street houses were built purely as homes, but this corner building had a storefront at its base, and part of the historic storefront pier and column still survives on the Woodbine Street front.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1911

   The corner flats trade a sitting room for a second bedroom because the lot has one light shaft

   Mathews Model Flats normally gave each apartment five rooms, among them a sitting room and a single bedroom, plus its own bathroom, all lit from shared light shafts. On corner lots like this one the plan lost its second light shaft, so the Mathews company changed the layout and put in a second bedroom where the sitting room would have been.

   “The plans of the corner buildings were modified due to the elimination of the second light shaft – adding a second bedroom instead of sitting room.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1911

   The Fairview Avenue side keeps its central entry portico and original one-story store wing

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   The nine-bay Fairview Avenue facade is buff brick over an amber brick base, with carved limestone lintels, bluestone quoins, two metal fire escapes and a central entry portico under a carved limestone cornice. A one-story store extension at the rear is original. Later owners added vinyl windows, masonry infill, new storefronts and a waterfall awning.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby

• 2003 Woodbine Street2 entries
• 2005 Woodbine Street2 entries
• 711 Fairview Avenue1 entry
• 2007 Woodbine Street2 entries
• 2011 Woodbine Street2 entries
• 2002 Palmetto Street2 entries

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