863 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
Charles Fritz builds 863 Onderdonk Avenue as part of a row of five tenements
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The Ridgewood South designation report dates 863 Onderdonk Avenue to 1913, when owner and developer Charles Fritz put it up together with its neighbors at 861, 865, 867 and 869 under new-building permit NB 2827-13. Louis Allmendinger was the architect, and the row mixes Renaissance and Romanesque Revival ornament. The five houses sit on lots 66 to 72 of Queens tax block 3465.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
863 Onderdonk Avenue keeps its paired wood-and-glass doors under a pedimented door hood
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The 2010 survey describes a front of pale yellow brick over an amber-brick base, five bays wide at the ground floor and four above, with round and segmental amber lintels. The carved limestone doorway with a bracketed, pedimented hood still frames historic paired wood-and-glass doors with a wood-grain finish, and the cornice with swags is painted tan and brown. Changes include a cleaned and repointed facade, aluminum windows and a new brick and cast-stone stoop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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