2026 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 builds 2026 Palmetto Street to a design by Louis Allmendinger
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2026 Palmetto Street went up in 1910 under new-building permit NB 2455-10, with Louis Allmendinger as architect and G.X. Mathews as original owner and developer. It is one of seven buildings, 2022 through 2036 Palmetto Street, standing on lots 14 to 26 of Queens tax block 3489, which the report describes as Renaissance and Romanesque Revival in style.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
2026 Palmetto Street keeps its bluestone stoop and two of its old wood windows
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In the commission's description, 2026 still had a historic bluestone stoop with an iron railing, paired wood-and-glass doors with a wood-grain finish, and a cornice of swags and cartouches painted buff. Most windows had been replaced in vinyl, but wood windows remained in the fourth and fifth bays of the second floor. The water table had been stuccoed, and the stoop had received cast-stone steps and tiles.
“Vinyl replacement windows except in fourth and fifth bays at second floor (wood)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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