770 Woodward Avenue

also 1883 Madison Street, 768 Woodward Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1915

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1914
Gustave X. Mathews serves as his own architect for his last buildings in the district
The 1914 permits for this corner, on the northwest side of Madison Street at Woodward Avenue, name G. X. Mathews as both owner and architect, and they were the last his company built in the Ridgewood South district. The corner went up under three separate permits (NB 2469-14 to 2471-14). Because the railroad right-of-way left odd-sized, non-rectangular lots here, the floor plans differ from the company's standard flats.
“The last buildings in the district constructed by Mathews are loca ted on the northwest corner of Madison Street and Woodward Avenues.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1958
Gustave X. Mathews, who built and designed this corner, dies at 88
Born in Rodalben in Germany's Palatinate in 1871, Gustave Xavier Mathews came to New York with his parents and brothers in 1886. He learned building from his father-in-law, the Bushwick-Ridgewood builder Louis Kuntz, and his four sons later joined his business. He died in 1958 at 88 after more than fifty years of building in Queens.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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