2015 Palmetto Street
Ridgewood | built 1910
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1910
G. X. Mathews files permits to build this flats house on Palmetto Street
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In May 1910 the developer G. X. Mathews filed building permits for the row of houses lining the northwest side of Palmetto Street from Fairview to Grandview Avenue, naming himself as owner, architect and builder. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2009 report on the Ridgewood North Historic District calls this row the next stage in the district's development, and 2015 Palmetto Street is one of its houses.
- 1910
The house follows the Mathews Model Flats plan of six apartments with private bathrooms
Like most of the district's three-story buildings off the avenues, the house was laid out for six apartments, two per floor, each with five rooms and its own bathroom lit by shared light shafts. These were cold water flats: there was running water but no hot water or central heat, so each household relied on a kitchen coal stove for heat, plus a kerosene heater in its living room.
“The “cold water flats” had running water to all floors and a full bathroom – toilet, sink and tub, but no hot water or central heating system.”
- 2009
The house keeps its historic double doors and bluestone stoop
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The report describes a five-bay front of buff brick over an amber brick base, with arched amber lintels, checkerboard bands of brick and limestone, and a carved limestone doorway under a pedimented hood. The historic paired wood-and-glass doors with their wood-grain finish and the bluestone stoop survive, while the windows are aluminum replacements and a satellite dish sits on the roof.
“…historic, paired wood-and-glass doors with wood grain finish; ... historic bluestone stoop; ... satellite dish at roof…”
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- 2011 Palmetto Street2 entries
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- 2019 Palmetto Street2 entries
- 2021 Palmetto Street2 entries
- 2005 Palmetto Street2 entries