1889 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.
- 1909
Joseph Weiss & Co. builds 1889 Stockholm Street from Louis Berger & Co.'s plans
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1889 Stockholm Street belongs to a group of seven two-story brick row houses, 1881 through 1893, that Joseph Weiss & Company put up in 1909 under permit NB 2043-1909. Louis Berger & Company designed the group in the Classical Revival style, with a basement below the two main floors. The house occupies lot 42 of Queens tax block 3400.
- 1910
Early census records show the row housing German-born parents and New York-born children
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Census returns from 1910 and 1920 found the houses on this block occupied mainly by German immigrants and their families. Typically the parents had come over from Germany in the 1880s or 1890s, while their children, from infants to young adults, had been born in New York. Some neighbors had roots in Ireland, Sweden, Poland or Hungary instead.
“Early occupants of the houses, according to census information from 1910 and 1920, were mostly German-born or of German ancestry.”
- 2000
The house keeps its graystone stoop, resurfaced, and its wood porch
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's survey of the Stockholm Street Historic District found the house's historic graystone stoop still in place, though resurfaced and given new iron railings. The curved three-bay front kept its wood porch with Doric columns and square spindles, double wood-and-glass entry doors and swagged pressed-metal cornice. Its limestone lintels were painted at the first story, security grilles guarded the basement windows, and the sash had been replaced.
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- 1887 Stockholm Street3 entries
- 1891 Stockholm Street3 entries
- 1885 Stockholm Street3 entries
- 1893 Stockholm Street3 entries
- 1883 Stockholm Street3 entries
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