2055 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
2055 Gates Avenue goes up in 1908 as part of Mathews' first Gates Avenue row
In 1908 G. X. Mathews filed plans (NB 2486-08) for eight Renaissance Revival flats from 2045 to 2059 Gates Avenue. Number 2055, on lot 43 of block 3485, was designed like its neighbors by the firm of Louis Berger and Company.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2009
Surveyors note 2055 Gates Avenue's cleaned brick front and fire escape at the back
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In the 2009 survey the five-bay buff brick facade had been cleaned and repointed, keeping its carved limestone lintels, bracketed door hood, old paired doors and a light gray cornice with swags. Its stoop had been rebuilt in brick and cast stone, and the windows were vinyl. At the rear, a six-bay brick wall with segmental-arched windows and a fire escape had been stuccoed buff.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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