861 Onderdonk Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1913

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

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1913
Builder Charles Fritz puts up 861 Onderdonk Avenue to Louis Allmendinger's design
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Charles Fritz, not G. X. Mathews, developed this building, the first in a row of five at 861 to 869 Onderdonk Avenue filed in 1913 as NB 2827-13. Louis Allmendinger designed it in the Renaissance and Romanesque Revival manner, with a three-bay pale yellow brick front, a carved limestone entrance under a bracketed pediment, and a cornice with swags. The paired wood-and-glass entry doors were still in place when the landmarks report was written.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
German-born builder Charles Fritz develops the Onderdonk Avenue lots beside St. Matthias
The lots along Onderdonk Avenue next to the St. Matthias Church property were developed in 1913 by Charles Fritz, a German immigrant who had arrived in Ridgewood as a boy in the late 1870s and took up building in 1895. He worked with another German, Joseph Barudio, on these Onderdonk and Catalpa Avenue buildings. Fritz hired Louis Allmendinger, the architect of most of the Mathews buildings, and the results look very much like the Mathews Model Flats.
“…developed by Charles Fritz in 1913. Fritz used Allmendinger ... in partnership with fellow German Joseph Barudio…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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