2034 Gates Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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

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1909
2034 Gates Avenue is built in 1909 in a row of eight flats by G. X. Mathews
In 1909 G. X. Mathews built 2034 Gates Avenue, one of eight flats from 2028 to 2042 Gates Avenue filed under permit NB 1859-09. Louis Berger and Company drew the designs in the Renaissance Revival style. The row sits on Queens tax block 3486, lots 2 through 16.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
2034 Gates Avenue keeps its limestone door hood and swagged cornice
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The five-bay buff brick front of 2034 has molded limestone lintels with keystones on the ground floor, brick pilasters on carved stone bases, and a gray swagged and modillioned cornice. Historic paired doors with a wood-grain finish sit within a bracketed limestone surround, since painted grey. Vinyl windows, a brick and cast-stone stoop, awning windows at the basement and a light brown stucco rear are later changes.
“…door surround painted grey; two lights near entry…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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