2050 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 2050 Gates Avenue to a design by Louis Berger and Company
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Under permit NB 1860-09, G. X. Mathews built 2050 Gates Avenue in 1909 as part of a row of eight matching Renaissance Revival flats from 2044 to 2058 Gates Avenue, all designed by Louis Berger and Company. The house sits on lot 24 of Queens tax block 3486.
- 1918
A city housing official recommends Mathews flats like 2050 Gates Avenue for wartime shipyard workers
In a letter, a commissioner of the city's Tenement House Department urged J. Rogers Flannery, Director of Housing, to use the Mathews Model Flats to relieve the housing shortage for employees of United States Government shipyards. The letter noted that both the Mathews Company and other builders in Queens had adopted the design as a standard.
- 2009
2050 Gates Avenue keeps wood-grained historic double doors and some historic stoop railing detail
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The 2009 survey found the five-bay buff brick front of 2050 Gates Avenue with carved limestone lintels, a bracketed door hood, historic double doors of wood and glass with a wood grain finish and a grey cornice with swags. Its stoop railing was new but kept some historic detailing. The door surround and base band course had been painted white, the rear wall stuccoed white, and the windows replaced in aluminum.
“…historic paired wood-and-glass doors with wood grain finish ... non-historic metal stoop railing with some historic detailing…”
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