2033 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
2033 Palmetto Street keeps its historic doors and much of its old ironwork
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The designation report records a five-bay buff brick front on an amber brick base, with arched lintels, checkerboard string courses of brick and limestone, and pilasters rising from corbelled bases. The historic paired doors have a wood-grain finish, and the historic stoop railing and the areaway railing, gate and newel posts survive, though some of their detail is gone. The cornice of swags and cartouches is painted dark grey, and the windows are vinyl replacements.
“…dark grey painted, denticulated and modillioned cornice with swags and cartouches; historic stoop railing…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
A 1913 advertisement promotes Mathews Model Flats like 2033 Palmetto Street
A 1913 advertisement called Mathews' Model Flats "the house that has made Ridgewood famous" and credited the company's success to buying land by the acre, buying materials in bulk straight from manufacturers, and selling directly to homeowners without speculators. Newspapers reported that six-family brick flats in the district sold for $11,000. Apartments were rented as soon as they were finished, and the company boasted of "never a single foreclosure."
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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