2051 Gates Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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 builds 2051 Gates Avenue in a row of eight Renaissance Revival flats
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2051 Gates Avenue was built in 1908 under permit NB 2486-08 for the developer G. X. Mathews, one of eight matching houses at 2045 to 2059 Gates Avenue designed by Louis Berger and Company. It occupies lot 47 of Queens tax block 3485.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
2051 Gates Avenue keeps green-painted historic doors and its areaway ironwork
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The 2009 report describes 2051 Gates Avenue's five-bay buff brick front with carved limestone lintels, rough-faced brown brick trim and string courses, brick pilasters and a tan cornice with swags. Its historic paired doors of wood and glass are painted green, and the historic areaway ironwork survives with some detail removed. Aluminum windows, metal grilles at the basement and a brick and cast stone stoop are later changes.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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