2027 Gates Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1930
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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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- 1908
2027 Gates Avenue is among the first Mathews flats filed in Ridgewood North
Filed in 1908 (NB 2485-08), 2027 Gates Avenue was designed by Louis Berger and Company for G. X. Mathews at the corner of Fairview Avenue. Its Renaissance Revival walls of buff brick carry carved limestone lintels, brick pilasters and a cornice with swags; the nine-bay Fairview side has a carved limestone entrance portico and two original fire escapes. The corner storefront was later bricked in and given four windows.
- 1910
The builder of 2027 Gates Avenue says it paid to send plans through the building chief's brother
Louis Berger was architect of record for the district's earliest Mathews buildings, filed in 1908. His brother Carl ran the Queens building department until he resigned in 1910 amid indictments in borough government, with allegations tied to a required tenement vent made by a Brooklyn firm the brothers seem to have had a stake in. The New York Times quoted the Mathews company saying routing plans through Louis spared it vexing delays.
“…it paid to have their plans pass through the hands of brother Louis, if they did not want the Building Superintendent to cause them vexing delays…”
- 1942
A one-story brick garage is added behind 2027 Gates Avenue
In 1942 a permit (NB 1023-42) was filed for a garage on the lot of 2027 Gates Avenue. The one-story building of buff and amber brick, with a roll-up door, stands in the rear yard off Fairview Avenue; its side wall has been stuccoed white and topped with terra cotta coping.
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