2029 Gates Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1908
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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
G. X. Mathews builds 2029 Gates Avenue as the first house in a row of eight flats
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Developer G. X. Mathews put up 2029 Gates Avenue in 1908 under new-building permit NB 2484-08, together with seven neighbors numbered 2029 through 2043. Louis Berger and Company were the architects, working in the Renaissance Revival style. The row stands on the northwest side of Gates Avenue between Fairview and Grandview Avenues, on Queens tax block 3485.
- 1908
A projecting first bay and a carved limestone door hood mark the start of the row
The five-bay facade of buff brick steps forward at its first bay. Molded limestone lintels, keystoned on the ground floor, frame the windows, a bracketed stone hood sits over paired wood-and-glass doors, and a swagged, modillioned cornice crowns the front. Later owners added vinyl windows and replaced the stoop with brick and cast stone, but the old areaway ironwork remains.
- 1908
Permit drawings for 2029 and 2031 Gates Avenue show the typical Mathews Model Flats floor plan
The 1908 new-building file for this row, NB 2484-08, held by the Department of Buildings in Queens, includes a plan of the second and third floors of 2029 and 2031 Gates Avenue. The Landmarks Preservation Commission chose that drawing as Figure 2 of its Ridgewood North Historic District report, presenting it as the typical floor plan of the Mathews Model Flats.
“Figure 2 Typical Mathews Model Flats Floor Plan Second and Third Floor, 2029 and 2031 Gates Avenue…”
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