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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1911/00/00 Gustav Xavier Mathews Developer, Builder The G X Mathews Company is awarded 25 percent of the tenement house certificates issued in the borough of Queens.
1911/00/00 Gustav Xavier Mathews Developer The G X Mathews Company is awarded 25 percent of the tenement house certificates issued in the borough of Queens.
1912/00/00 Louis Allmendinger Architect Finished with amber brick facades with burnt orange brick bases and trim, G X Mathews Company builds Mathews Model Flats, tenement buildings that offer improved sanitation for the residences, 1911-1912.
1915/00/00 Gustav Xavier Mathews Developer 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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Particulars for Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Historic District
Other Description Mathews Flats
Historic Use Multiple dwelling
Owner Private



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 30th September 1983

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District
Registry Address: Roughly bounded by Woodward, Seneca, Catalpa Aves., and Woodbine St.
Registry Number: 83001779
Resource Type: District
Theme Group: Ridgewood MRA
Owner: Private
Architect: Mathews, G.X.; Allmendinger,Louis
Architectural Style: Other
Attribute: Mathews Flats
Area in Acres: 21
Contributing Buildings: 211
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Significant Year: 1911, 1912
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Multiple dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Multiple dwelling

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