2017 Palmetto Street

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
G. X. Mathews designs and builds this house as one of a row of eight
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This house was built in 1910 under new-building permit NB 1410-10, which covered eight houses from 2005 to 2025 Palmetto Street on lots 55 through 69 of Queens block 3486. G. X. Mathews was both the original developer and the architect, and the report classes the row's style as Renaissance and Romanesque Revival.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
A cast-stone stoop and a security camera now mark the front of the house
When the district was surveyed, the house still had buff brick panels below its first-story windows, a bluestone water table and a denticulated cornice with swags and cartouches painted light grey. Changes included aluminum windows, a camera, conduit and a metal sign on the facade, a new cast-stone stoop with metal railings, and mesh grilles over the basement windows.
“…conduit, camera and metal sign at facade; two lights near door; ... non-historic cast-stone stoop…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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