2045 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.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1907
Gustave Mathews buys the farmland where the Gates Avenue rows will rise
Gustave Mathews bought the Fleckenstein farm property in 1907, and Katharina Schwamb, widow of Michael Schwamb, sold him portions of her family's former farm the next year. The first plans filed on this land were for the houses on both sides of Gates Avenue, in 1908 and 1909, all naming Louis Berger & Co. as architect.
“Gustave Mathews purchased the Fleckenstein property in 1907, and Michael Schwamb's widow, Katharina, sold portions of their former farm to Mathews the following year.”
- 1908
G. X. Mathews builds 2045 Gates Avenue, opening a row of eight Renaissance Revival flats
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2045 Gates Avenue went up in 1908 for the developer G. X. Mathews under permit NB 2486-08, with Louis Berger and Company as architect. It heads a matching row of eight Renaissance Revival houses numbered 2045 through 2059 on the odd side of the street, on lots 39 to 53 of Queens tax block 3485.
- 2009
2009 survey of 2045 Gates Avenue records a tan swagged cornice and vinyl replacement windows
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The 2009 historic district report describes a five-bay buff brick front with carved limestone lintels, rough-faced brown brick trim at the ground floor, brick pilasters on carved stone bases and a denticulated, modillioned cornice with swags, painted tan. The paired wood-and-glass doors survived, though the areaway ironwork had lost some detail. Vinyl windows, a light over the entry, brown paint on the base and a brick and cast stone stoop were later changes.
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