Gustav Xavier Mathews

  • American

Gustav X Mathews was a notable American builder and real estate developer based in Queens, New York. Along with architects Louis Berger and Louis Allmendinger, the G X Mathews Company developed residential housing known as Mathews Model Flats, tenement apartments that provided an improved housing option over previous tenement models by featuring larger air shafts and fewer apartments with bigger rooms and private bathrooms. The G X Mathews Company was a family business that included Gustav's brothers, Albert, William F and Ernest. Albert Mathews handled the advertising which included using postcards to promote their developments. - AsNotedIn


Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1871/00/00 Gustave Xavier Matheis is born in Rodalben, Palatinate, Germany to Xavier and Rosa Matheis. Born
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. Life
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. Groom
1904/00/00 Gustav Xavier Mathews establishes the Mathews Realty and Construction Company with two of his brothers, William F and Ernest. Developer Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District New York City
1907/00/00 G X Mathews Company buys the former Schwamb and Fleckenstein farms along Forest Avenue and begins developing the land for housing. Developer, Builder Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District New York City
1911/00/00 The G X Mathews Company is awarded 25 percent of the tenement house certificates issued in the borough of Queens. Developer, Builder Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District New York City
1911/00/00 G X Mathews buys the old Meyerrose farm and builds almost 170 model tenements on the site. Developer, Builder Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District New York City
1911/00/00 The G X Mathews Company is awarded 25 percent of the tenement house certificates issued in the borough of Queens. Developer Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District New York City
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. Developer Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District New York City
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. Developer, Builder Sunnyside Gardens Historic District New York City
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. Developer
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. Developer, Builder
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. Died Orangetown New York
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