2053 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 2053 Gates Avenue as one of eight matching flats
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Developer G. X. Mathews filed new-building application 2486-08 in 1908 for a row of eight buildings at 2045 to 2059 Gates Avenue, and 2053 rose on lot 45 of tax block 3485. Louis Berger and Company drew the plans. The Landmarks Preservation Commission classes the row's style as Renaissance Revival.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
A 2009 survey records 2053 Gates Avenue's limestone door hood and swagged cornice
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The Commission's 2009 survey found the house's five-bay buff brick front still trimmed with carved limestone lintels, keystones over the ground-floor openings, a bracketed stone hood at the door and old paired wood-and-glass doors. Its gray-painted cornice kept its dentils, modillions and swags. Changes included vinyl windows, white paint on the base and door surround, a gray-painted stoop with a newer railing, and areaway ironwork that had lost its newels.
“…white-painted stonework at base and door surround; two lights at door; metal grilles at basement windows; stoop painted grey…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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