Designated October 26, 2010
The Ridgewood South Historic District is composed of over 210 buildings, primarily three-story brick tenements, and the St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church Complex. The ‘ new law’ tenements have buff- and amber-colored brick facades, with carved-stone details, ornate pressed metal cornices, with original stoop and areaway ironwork. They were constructed between 1911 and 1912 by the G.X. Mathews Company and were designed by architect Louis Allmendinger.