2048 Gates Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1909
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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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- 1909
G. X. Mathews builds 2048 Gates Avenue in a row of eight Renaissance Revival flats
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2048 Gates Avenue dates from 1909, when G. X. Mathews filed permit NB 1860-09 for eight matching houses at 2044 to 2058 Gates Avenue. Louis Berger and Company designed them in the Renaissance Revival style. This one occupies lot 22 of Queens tax block 3486.
- 1913
A 1913 advertisement calls Mathews flats like 2048 Gates Avenue the house that made Ridgewood famous
A Mathews Model Flats advertisement from 1913 billed the buildings as best located, best built and best in sanitary arrangements. It credited the company's success to building near existing and planned transit, buying land by the acre, buying materials in bulk straight from manufacturers, and selling directly to homeowners rather than through speculators.
- 2009
2048 Gates Avenue keeps its historic areaway ironwork and golden-painted doors
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The 2009 survey describes 2048 Gates Avenue as a five-bay buff brick house with carved limestone lintels, a bracketed stone door hood, golden-painted historic double doors and a light grey cornice with swags, with its historic areaway ironwork still in place. The front had been cleaned and repointed, and vinyl windows, basement grilles and a brick and cast stone stoop with metal railings were later changes.
“…historic areaway ironwork. Alterations: Facade has been cleaned and repointed; vinyl replacement windows in all openings…”
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