804 Onderdonk Avenue

also 1834 Putnam Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1913

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.

1913
G. X. Mathews builds the Putnam Avenue corner tenement to Louis Allmendinger's design
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In 1913, under permit NB 1011-13, developer G. X. Mathews put up a row of seven buildings on the east side of Putnam Avenue, numbered 1820 to 1834, with this one on the Onderdonk Avenue corner. Louis Allmendinger designed them in a Renaissance and Romanesque Revival manner, using pale yellow brick set on an amber-brick base. The Onderdonk Avenue side stretches nine bays and has a central entrance framed in carved limestone.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
Landmarks report records the Onderdonk Avenue shops removed and filled with brick
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The 2010 Ridgewood South designation report records that the ground-floor storefronts on this building's Onderdonk Avenue side had been taken out and replaced with brick and ordinary double-hung windows. Some original fabric survived: two metal fire escapes and a pair of wood-and-glass entrance doors in the carved limestone doorway. The facade had been cleaned and repointed, and the rear wall was stuccoed cream with new window surrounds.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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