817 Onderdonk Avenue

also 815 Onderdonk Avenue, 1851 Cornelia Street | Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1911
Louis Allmendinger designs a three-storefront corner building at Cornelia Street and Onderdonk Avenue
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This corner building heads a row of eight that G. X. Mathews put up on the west side of Cornelia Street in 1911 under permit NB 1317-11, with Louis Allmendinger as architect. Built of pale yellow brick on an amber base in the Renaissance and Romanesque Revival styles, it has a nine-bay Onderdonk Avenue front. It carries the addresses 811, 817 and 819 Onderdonk Avenue as well as 1851 Cornelia Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
Survey finds original pressed-metal cornices over all three of the building's storefronts
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's district survey found that the Onderdonk Avenue side still had historic pressed-metal cornices above each of its three storefronts, along with original brick framing and bulkhead at the corner shop. The shopfronts themselves had been altered with stucco infill, new doors and roll gates. The survey also lists an elevator bulkhead on the roof and notes the roof may be seen from the M train's Forest Avenue platform.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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