2027 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
May
G.X. Mathews serves as owner, architect and builder of 2027 Palmetto Street
The permits for the row on Palmetto Street's northwest side, from Fairview to Grandview Avenue, were filed in May 1910, and they name G.X. Mathews in all three roles: owner, architect and builder. The commission's report treats this row as the next phase of the company's development of the district. Later that year the houses across the street were designed instead by the Brooklyn architect Louis Allmendinger.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1918
January 23
The city's Tenement House Department recommends Mathews Model Flats like 2027 Palmetto Street for war workers
On January 23, 1918, a Tenement House Department commissioner wrote to recommend the Mathews Model Flats, the building type of this row, to J. Rogers Flannery, Director of Housing. The commissioner offered the design as a remedy for the shortage of homes for workers at U.S. government shipyards, explaining that the type had become a Queens standard used by Mathews and by other builders alike.
“…a commissioner of the Tenement House Department recommended “Mathews Model Flats” to J. Rogers Flannery, Director of Housing…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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