2016 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
Louis Allmendinger designs the house for developer G. X. Mathews
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The house was built in 1910 under permit NB 2456-10, one of seven buildings from 2002 to 2020 Palmetto Street on the southeast side of the street. Unlike the houses across the way, which Mathews designed himself, this row was drawn by the architect Louis Allmendinger, with G. X. Mathews as the original owner and developer.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
The house keeps its bluestone stoop while its ground-floor trim is painted white
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The 2009 survey found the house's historic bluestone stoop and iron railing and its paired wood-and-glass doors with a wood-grain finish still in place, under a light-grey cornice with swags and cartouches. By then the ground-floor stone and brick trim had been painted white, the stoop resurfaced, aluminum windows installed and the rear wall stuccoed white.
“…ground floor stone and brick trim painted white; conduit at facade; metal mesh window grilles at basement…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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