865 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 865 Onderdonk Avenue to a Louis Allmendinger design much like the Mathews Model Flats
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Charles Fritz, who developed this row in 1913, chose Louis Allmendinger as architect. The report observes that the result looks very much like the Mathews Model Flats, the improved tenement type that the G. X. Mathews Company was building in the neighborhood. Fritz, a German immigrant who started building in 1895, worked on these Onderdonk Avenue houses with his partner Joseph Barudio.
“Fritz used Allmendinger to design the tenement buildings; and they have a very similar appearance to the Mathews Model Flats.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
865 Onderdonk Avenue keeps a historic stone stoop and railings at the sides of its areaway
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When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the street, 865 Onderdonk Avenue still had its historic stone stoop, historic paired wood-and-glass doors with a painted finish, wood basement windows with grilles, and a grey cornice with swags. Historic railings survived at the sides of the areaway. Later changes include aluminum storm windows, a resurfaced stoop painted grey with a new railing, and a rear wall painted grey with vinyl windows and a clothesline.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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