2002 Palmetto Street

also 707 Fairview Avenue, 703 Fairview Avenue, 705 Fairview Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1910

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

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1910
Brooklyn architect Louis Allmendinger designs this corner building for G. X. Mathews
Permits filed later in 1910 name Louis Allmendinger as architect of the buildings on the southeast side of Palmetto Street. Born in Brooklyn in 1878 to a German-immigrant brewer and trained at Cooper Union, he kept offices in Bushwick. He later designed the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Brooklyn and, with partner M. Allen Schlendorf, the J. Kurtz & Sons store in Queens.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Stores face Fairview Avenue on this nine-bay corner flats building
This corner building has a four-bay front on Palmetto Street and a nine-bay buff-brick side on Fairview Avenue, with two historic fire escapes, a carved limestone door surround and a one-story store extension at the rear. By 2009 the ground floor had been refitted with storefront infill, awnings and new doors, and two satellite dishes stood on the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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