1871/00/00 |
Gustave Xavier Matheis is born in Rodalben, Palatinate, Germany to Xavier and Rosa Matheis. |
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1886/00/00 |
Xavier and Rosa Matheis and their five sons immigrate to the to the United States in 1886, settling in New York, and later, on Myrtle Avenue in Bushwick. |
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1900/00/00 |
Clara Kuntz, daughter of Louis (Ludwig) Kuntz, a prominent builder in the Bushwick-Ridgewood, marries Gustave X Mathews. It will be from his fatherin-law that Mathews learns the building trade, working with Kuntz and his partner, John Dreher. |
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1904/00/00 |
Gustav Xavier Mathews establishes the Mathews Realty and Construction Company with two of his brothers, William F and Ernest. |
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Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District |
New York City |
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1907/00/00 |
G X Mathews Company buys the former Schwamb and Fleckenstein farms along Forest Avenue and begins developing the land for housing. |
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Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District |
New York City |
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1911/00/00 |
The G X Mathews Company is awarded 25 percent of the tenement house certificates issued in the borough of Queens. |
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Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District |
New York City |
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1911/00/00 |
G X Mathews buys the old Meyerrose farm and builds almost 170 model tenements on the site. |
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Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District |
New York City |
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1911/00/00 |
The G X Mathews Company is awarded 25 percent of the tenement house certificates issued in the borough of Queens. |
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Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District |
New York City |
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1915/00/00 |
The New York City Tenement House Department identifies the Mathews Model Flats as the "most up-to-date method of housing for the masses at a minimum of cost" and other builders began to copy the design. |
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Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District |
New York City |
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1919/00/00 |
The Mathews Company begins building over 300 buildings, including its model flats, two-story apartment buildings and one- and two-family houses, just east of Sunnyside Gardens in Woodside. |
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Sunnyside Gardens Historic District |
New York City |
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1942/00/00 |
By 1942, the G X Mathews Company completes 150 modern-style, 2-family homes near Calamus and Grand Avenues in the Elmhurst section of Queens. |
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1942/00/00 |
By 1942, the G X Mathews Company completes 150 modern-style, 2-family homes near Calamus and Grand Avenues in the Elmhurst section of Queens. |
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1958/09/22 |
Gustave Xavier Mathews dies at the age of 88. He is buried at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Nyack, Rockland County, New York. |
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Orangetown |
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