1891 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 1891 Stockholm Street in a Classical Revival row by Louis Berger
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1891 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 41 of Queens tax block 3400.
- 1909
Two apartments are fitted into the house, the upper one a room larger than the lower
The two-story house was planned with a single apartment on each floor and a basement left unfinished. Downstairs there were five rooms; upstairs there were six, the extra one sitting above the first-floor entry hall. Both apartments had a full bathroom with a tub, the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report on the Stockholm Street houses notes.
“First floor apartments had five rooms, while the second floor apartments had six, gaining an extra room above the entry hall…”
- 2000
The house keeps its old wood door under the stoop and its columned porch
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Describing the house for the Stockholm Street Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission noted a historic wood door beneath a newer brick stoop with iron railings. The curved three-bay front kept its wood porch with Doric columns and square spindles, double wood-and-glass entry doors, rock-faced limestone lintels and pressed-metal cornice. Iron security grilles had been added at the basement windows, and the window sash had been replaced.
“…non-historic brick stoop with non-historic wrought-iron railings; historic wood door under the stoop…”
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