2054 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
Louis Berger and Company design 2054 Gates Avenue for developer G. X. Mathews
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Number 2054 belongs to a row of eight flats, 2044 to 2058 Gates Avenue, that G. X. Mathews put up under a 1909 permit, NB 1860-09. It sits on lot 28 of tax block 3486. The firm of Louis Berger and Company are listed as designers, working in a Renaissance Revival manner.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
A 2009 survey finds a fire escape and a castellated entry on the front of 2054 Gates Avenue
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By the 2009 survey this house had a metal fire escape across its front, a new castellated stone frame and door at the entrance, and concrete steps in place of its bluestone stoop. One basement window bay had been widened into a doorway, and the areaway got new concrete steps and a railing. The keystoned limestone lintels and swagged cornice survived, and the six-bay rear wall had been stuccoed white.
“…metal fire escape at facade; non-historic, castellated stone surround at entry; non-historic door; ... non-historic concrete steps replace bluestone stoop…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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