2044 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
G. X. Mathews builds 2044 Gates Avenue as the first house in an even-numbered row of eight
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Developer G. X. Mathews put up 2044 Gates Avenue in 1909 under new-building permit NB 1860-09, with Louis Berger and Company as architect. It begins a row of eight matching Renaissance Revival houses numbered 2044 to 2058 on the even side of the street, on lots 18 through 32 of Queens tax block 3486.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
Landmarks survey finds historic golden-painted doors and later aluminum windows at 2044 Gates Avenue
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the house in 2009, its five-bay buff brick front still had carved limestone lintels with keystones over the ground-floor openings, a bracketed stone door hood and its historic pair of wood-and-glass doors, painted a golden color. Later changes included aluminum windows, wood windows and grilles in the basement, grey paint on the bluestone band course, and a non-historic brick and cast stone stoop with metal railings.
“…historic paired wood-and-glass doors painted golden color ... Alterations: Aluminum replacement windows in all openings; wood windows and grilles at basement…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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