2047 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.
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- 1908
G. X. Mathews erects 2047 Gates Avenue to plans by Louis Berger and Company
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Permit NB 2486-08 covered 2047 Gates Avenue, built in 1908 for G. X. Mathews as the second house in a row of eight Renaissance Revival flats running from 2045 to 2059 Gates Avenue. Louis Berger and Company was the architect. The house sits on lot 51 of Queens tax block 3485.
- 1908
2047 Gates Avenue is built as cold-water flats heated by coal stoves and kerosene
The Mathews flats in the district were built on 27.5-foot lots so each floor held two apartments, each with a living room, dining room, bedroom, sitting room, kitchen and its own full bathroom, all lit from shared light shafts. Water ran to every floor, but there was no hot water or central heat: each kitchen had a coal stove for warmth, and each living room a kerosene heater.
“…a coal stove in the kitchen and a kerosene heater in the living room were used to heat each apartment.”
- 2009
2009 survey finds the historic stone stoop of 2047 Gates Avenue covered in cast stone
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By 2009 the buff brick front of 2047 Gates Avenue had been cleaned and repointed. It keeps carved limestone lintels with keystones, a bracketed door hood, ochre-painted historic double doors of wood and glass, a grey cornice with swags and historic areaway ironwork. The report lists vinyl windows, grey paint on the base and door surround, and cast stone laid over the historic stone stoop as later alterations.
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