1881 Stockholm Street
Ridgewood | built 1909
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1891
Hamlin Babcock files a map dividing the farm where 1881 Stockholm Street now stands
Before the row houses, this stretch of Ridgewood was the Babcock farm, a rectangle of fields bordered by wooden fences and stone walls beside Linden Hill Cemetery. On November 19, 1891, Hamlin Babcock filed a map subdividing it, and streets including Stockholm, Harman, Himrod and Stanhope, which cross the county line from Brooklyn, were later mapped through the property, with blocks cut into standard 100-foot-deep lots. None of the farm's few buildings survive.
- 1909
Joseph Weiss & Company builds 1881 Stockholm Street to begin a seven-house row
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1881 Stockholm Street went up in 1909 under permit NB 2043-1909 as the first of seven brick row houses numbered 1881 to 1893. Joseph Weiss & Company was the original owner and developer, and Louis Berger & Company was the architect. The Classical Revival houses each have two stories over a basement.
- 2000
1881 Stockholm Street keeps its early wood door beneath the stoop
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In the 2000 landmark survey, 1881 Stockholm Street still had a historic wood door below the stoop and its double wood-and-glass doors at the main entrance. The full-width porch, with Doric columns, square spindles and a molded cornice, had gained a metal awning, and the brick stoop, railings, fence and gate were replacements. Rock-faced limestone lintels crown the windows of the curved front.
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