2005 Palmetto Street

Ridgewood | built 1910

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

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

1910
A projecting first bay sets this house apart from its neighbors on the row
The five-bay buff-brick front has an amber brick base and a first bay that steps forward from the facade, with checkerboard bands of brick and limestone and a carved limestone surround and pedimented hood at the central door. In 2009 the Landmarks report recorded aluminum windows, a glass door with sidelight and transom, a security camera on the facade and a rebuilt brick and cast-stone stoop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
Landmarks report ranks this Palmetto Street row as the earliest fully developed Mathews flats
In its 2009 report on the Ridgewood North Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission found that the houses on Palmetto Street, this one among them, were the first fully realized versions of the Mathews flats in Ridgewood. The G. X. Mathews company went on to repeat the facade design across Queens, from Catalpa Avenue, Putnam Avenue and Cornelia Street nearby to 48th Street in Long Island City.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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