917 Onderdonk Avenue

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
Jacob Rodler builds a store-and-flats building at 917 Onderdonk Avenue to Louis Allmendinger's design
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Rodler put up this three-story Renaissance Revival building around 1911 alongside his row of nine flats houses at 921-937 and a store-and-flats building at 939, though it got a permit of its own, new-building application 2899-1911. Allmendinger used brick with limestone sills and lintels, two fluted chimneys on corbels, and a metal cornice trimmed with festoons and egg-and-dart molding.
“Built with the nine flats buildings at 921 to 937 Onderdonk Avenue, and the store and flats building at 939 Onderdonk Avenue, but under separate new building application…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
A storefront is in place at 917 Onderdonk Avenue, a building whose front door faces 69th Avenue
The 1914 Sanborn fire-insurance map already shows a store on the ground floor of this building, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Despite its Onderdonk Avenue address, the main entrance opens onto 69th Avenue. The storefront has since been replaced and the store cornice removed, a doorway east of the store has been bricked up around an air conditioner, and satellite dishes now sit on the roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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