804 Woodward Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1911
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1911
The Mathews company agrees to buy the old Meyerrose farm, where this corner will rise
In 1911 the G. X. Mathews Company agreed to buy the former Meyerrose farm, the land that later became the Ridgewood South Historic District, and built close to 170 model tenements on it. That year the company took a quarter of all tenement house certificates issued in Queens.
“…the company agreed to purchase the old Meyerrose farm, the site of th e Ridgewood South Historic District, in 1911…”
- 1911
G. X. Mathews builds 804 Woodward Avenue as the corner of a row of eight on Putnam Avenue
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Under permit NB 1311-11, filed in 1911, G. X. Mathews built eight tenements at 1870 through 1884 Putnam Avenue to designs by Louis Allmendinger, in a blend of Renaissance and Romanesque Revival styles. The corner building, 1884 Putnam Avenue, also carries the address 804 Woodward Avenue.
“1870, 1872, 1874, 1876, 1878, 1880, 1882, 1884 Putnam Avenue (aka 804 Woodward Avenue)…”
- 1911
The corner building turns a nine-bay brick front toward Woodward Avenue
The corner tenement has a four-bay front on Putnam Avenue and a nine-bay front on Woodward Avenue, both in pale yellow brick over an amber base, with patterned amber brickwork, two metal fire escapes and a carved limestone doorway in the center. A cornice with swags and cartouches crowns both sides, and a one-story amber brick extension runs out at the rear. A corner storefront at street level now has modern infill and an awning.
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- 1882 Putnam Avenue2 entries
- 1880 Putnam Avenue3 entries
- 1878 Putnam Avenue3 entries
- 1876 Putnam Avenue3 entries
- 818 Woodward Avenue3 entries
- 1889 Cornelia Street1 entry