2049 Palmetto Street
Ridgewood | built 1910
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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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- 1910
G. X. Mathews files plans for the Grandview Avenue corner building, naming himself as architect
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The permit for this corner building, NB 1423-10, was one of four filed in May 1910 for the northwest side of Palmetto Street between Fairview and Grandview avenues. Each named G. X. Mathews himself as owner, builder and architect. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes the filings came shortly after Carl Berger, brother of the architect Louis Berger, left his job running the Queens Department of Buildings.
- 1910
The corner flats building has storefronts on its long side and a one-story store at the rear
This corner building has a nine-bay side elevation with a central entry and storefronts, plus a one-story store at the rear that keeps its historic metal sign band and cornice. Its buff brick walls carry amber brick arches, checkerboard brick and limestone banding, and a cornice with swags and cartouches. The ground floor has since been refitted with modern storefronts, sign bands and roll gates, and the windows replaced in aluminum.
- 1910
The Palmetto Street flats are the earliest fully developed Mathews flats in Ridgewood
The Landmarks Preservation Commission identifies the houses on Palmetto Street, this corner building among them, as the earliest examples in Ridgewood of fully developed Mathews flats. The G. X. Mathews Company went on to reuse the same facade design across Queens, including Cornelia Street and Catalpa and Putnam avenues in Ridgewood, and 48th Street in Long Island City.
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