1882 Stockholm Street
Ridgewood | built 1908
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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.
- 1908
Joseph Weiss & Company builds 1882 Stockholm Street in its eight-house row
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Built in 1908 under building permit NB 1985-1908, 1882 Stockholm Street belongs to the run of eight brick row houses from 1880 through 1894. Louis Berger & Company was the architect and Joseph Weiss & Company the original owner and developer. The house has two stories above a basement and Classical Revival detailing.
- 1908
Staten Island's Kreischer works supplies the speckled brick of the Stockholm Street rows
The rows on this block, 1882 among them, were faced with brick from the Kreischer Brick Manufacturing Company, whose works stood on the Arthur Kill in Staten Island. Kreischer made wedge-shaped smokestack bricks that Ridgewood builders laid side by side to form curved bays like the one on this house. Most of the brick here is iron-spot brick, smooth and speckled through added manganese, set with tight flush joints. The Kreischer factory closed in 1927.
“This type of brick was used creatively in Ridgewood to create the curved bays that characterize many of its rows…”
- 2000
1882 Stockholm Street retains its early door beneath the stoop
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The 2000 landmark survey recorded a historic door under the stoop of 1882 Stockholm Street, now behind a newer wrought-iron security gate, and historic double wood-and-glass doors at the main entrance. The graystone stoop had been painted and given new railings, and the window sash had been replaced. The curved front keeps its rock-faced limestone lintels, full-width columned wood porch and a pressed-metal cornice with swags, dentils and scrolled brackets.
“…historic door under the stoop with non-historic wrought-iron security gate; historic double, wood and glass doors at the entryway…”
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