2029 Woodbine Street

Ridgewood | built 1911

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1911
2029 Woodbine Street is built to Louis Allmendinger's design for developer G. X. Mathews
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No. 2029 went up in 1911 as one of six Renaissance Revival flats that G. X. Mathews built at 2017 to 2031 Woodbine Street, with Louis Allmendinger as architect. Its five-bay buff-brick front has carved limestone sills and lintels, decorative brickwork in geometric patterns, and a tan-painted modillioned cornice. The commission's survey found concrete laid over the original bluestone stoop, a metal awning at the door and aluminum replacement windows.
“…metal awning, light and intercom at door; stonework at base painted grey; metal mesh screen and non-historic door at basement; concrete over historic bluestone stoop…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1915
The city's Tenement House Department names Mathews Model Flats like 2029 Woodbine its most up-to-date low-cost housing
Gustave X. Mathews bought the land of the Ridgewood North district in 1907-08, and his company built its model tenements there, including this Woodbine Street row. In 1915 New York City's Tenement House Department chose the Mathews Model Flats as its most up-to-date way of housing people at minimal cost. Other builders began copying the design, and by the mid-1910s the company was looking beyond Ridgewood for land.
“In 1915, the Tenement House Department of New York City selected the “Mathews Model Flats”…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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