1886 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
Louis Berger & Co. designs 1886 Stockholm Street for developer Joseph Weiss & Co.
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1886 Stockholm Street went up in 1908 as one of eight brick row houses numbered 1880 through 1894, built by the developer Joseph Weiss & Company under new-building permit NB 1985-1908. Louis Berger & Company, the architects, gave the row a Classical Revival dress. The house stands on lot 29 of Queens tax block 3401, on the east side of the street.
- 1910
German immigrant families fill the new houses on Stockholm Street
Census records from 1910 and 1920 show that the first residents of these houses were mostly born in Germany or of German descent, many naming home regions such as Bavaria, Saxony, Prussia, Alsace and Bohemia. Most households were married couples who had arrived in the 1880s or 1890s, raising children born in New York. A smaller share came from Ireland, Sweden, Poland or Hungary.
“Early occupants of the houses, according to census information from 1910 and 1920, were mostly German-born or of German ancestry.”
- 2000
The house still has its original wrought- and cast-iron fence and gate
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's survey of the Stockholm Street Historic District noted that this house kept its historic wrought- and cast-iron fence and gate. Its curved three-bay facade had been repainted and its graystone stoop painted, with replacement railings. The porch with Doric columns, the double wood-and-glass entry doors, limestone lintels and the swagged pressed-metal cornice survived; the window sash had been replaced.
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- 1888 Stockholm Street3 entries
- 1884 Stockholm Street3 entries
- 1890 Stockholm Street3 entries
- 1882 Stockholm Street3 entries
- 1892 Stockholm Street3 entries
- 1880 Stockholm Street2 entries