675 Grandview Avenue

also 2108 Gates Avenue, 66-02 Forest Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1914

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1914

    G.X. Mathews finishes the Ridgewood North district with a block of stores and flats on Forest Avenue

    The last buildings in what became the Ridgewood North Historic District were the row of tenements with shops at 66-02 to 66-08 Forest Avenue, put up in 1914, and this corner building, filed under permit NB 1723-14 and also numbered 675 Grandview Avenue and 2108 Gates Avenue, heads the row. G.X. Mathews appears on the permits as owner, architect and builder all at once. Its buff brick fronts, four bays on Forest Avenue and ten on Gates, mix Renaissance and Romanesque Revival details: segmental and arched amber brick lintels, limestone string courses and a denticulated, modillioned cornice. The corner storefronts on the Gates Avenue side have since been filled with stucco and windows.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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