862 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
G. X. Mathews builds a two-story building at 862 Onderdonk Avenue
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862 Onderdonk Avenue is a two-story, three-bay building. G. X. Mathews developed it in 1913 under permit NB 138-13, and Louis Allmendinger designed it with the same pale yellow brick over an amber base, patterned brick and limestone string courses, and a cornice with swags.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
A narrow lot forces a different floor plan at 862 Onderdonk Avenue
The standard Mathews Model Flats sat on 27.5-foot lots with two apartments per floor. The landmarks report names 862 Onderdonk Avenue as one of only two buildings in the Ridgewood South Historic District built on a narrower lot and therefore given a different plan; the other is 1879 Madison Street.
“Two buildings in the district, 862 Onderdonk Avenue and 1879 Madison Street, were constructed on narrower lots and, therefore, feature a different plan.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
Landmarks survey finds a garage door and glass panels at the base of 862 Onderdonk
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The district survey found the ground floor of 862 Onderdonk Avenue heavily changed: a paneled wood door with transom, a roll-up garage door and brick piers filled the base, and the first-floor cornice had been replaced by a stuccoed panel. A recessed cloth awning and green or grey glass panels fronted the first floor, while the upper story kept its brick and cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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