2052 Gates Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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 2052 Gates Avenue in a 1909 row of eight flats
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Developer G. X. Mathews filed new-building application 1860-09 in 1909 for eight flats numbered 2044 through 2058 Gates Avenue. Number 2052 stands on lot 26 of tax block 3486. Louis Berger and Company were the architects of record, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the row's ornament as Renaissance Revival.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
A 2009 survey finds 2052 Gates Avenue keeping its wood-grained doors and areaway ironwork
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When the Commission surveyed the house in 2009, its five-bay front of buff brick still had paired wood-and-glass doors with a wood grain finish, an old railing at the entrance beneath the stoop, and ironwork in the areaway. Storm windows covered most openings, with aluminum replacements only in two bays of the second floor. The stoop had been rebuilt in brick and concrete, and the back wall was covered in brown stucco.
“Storm windows in all openings, except for aluminum replacement windows at first and second bays of second floor…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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