2049 Gates Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1908

    Louis Berger and Company designs 2049 Gates Avenue for developer G. X. Mathews

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    Built in 1908 under permit NB 2486-08, 2049 Gates Avenue is one of eight matching Renaissance Revival houses, numbered 2045 to 2059, that G. X. Mathews developed on the odd side of the street to designs by Louis Berger and Company. It stands on lot 49 of Queens tax block 3485.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1915

    The city's Tenement House Department endorses the Mathews Model Flats type of 2049 Gates Avenue

    In 1915 New York City's Tenement House Department picked the Mathews Model Flats as the most current way of housing the masses at the lowest cost, and other builders started to copy them. Four years earlier the company had taken a quarter of all tenement house permits issued in Queens, the same year it bought the old Meyerrose farm, where it built more than 200 more model tenements.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2009

    2049 Gates Avenue has a replacement door but keeps a swagged cornice painted tan and black

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    In the 2009 report, 2049 Gates Avenue shows the row's five-bay buff brick front, carved limestone lintels with keystones, a bracketed limestone door hood and a modillioned cornice with swags painted tan and black, plus historic areaway ironwork. Its alterations include replacement and storm windows, a non-historic door, two lights and an intercom near the entry, stucco over the base stonework, and a brick and cast stone stoop.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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