59-12 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1913

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1913
Joseph Meyerrose, elected Queens sheriff in 1903, builds a three-house row at 59-12 to 59-16 Madison Street
Joseph Meyerrose, born in 1859 to the Bremen-born farmer Joachim Meyerrose, kept working the family farm before selling parts of it to builders around 1900, and was elected Queens County sheriff in 1903. In 1913 he built the small row at 59-12 to 59-16 Madison Street, which, like his other houses and rows of those years, was designed by Louis Berger & Company.
“Later, he built three small rows of buildings at 66-63 to 66-69 Forest (1914) and 59-12 to 59-16 Madison Street (1913)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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