2060 Gates Avenue

also 676 Grandview Avenue, 678 Grandview Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1909

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1909
Ridgewood's most prolific architect, Louis Berger, draws the district's first Gates Avenue buildings
Permits filed in 1908 and 1909 for the district's earliest buildings, lining both sides of Gates Avenue, name Louis Berger & Company as architect; this corner building was among them in 1909. Born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, Berger came to America in 1880, settled in Ridgewood in 1892, studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings. Between 1895 and 1930 his firm was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings across Ridgewood and Bushwick.
“Louis Berger & Co. was the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
The building's Grandview Avenue entrance keeps its brick portico and original wood-and-glass doors
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Built for G.X. Mathews to Louis Berger and Company's design, the building has a nine-bay buff brick front on Grandview Avenue with a central entrance framed by a brick portico, a carved limestone cornice and door surround, and historic paired wood-and-glass doors. A historic one-story store also survives, though its storefront has been replaced and fitted with metal roll gates, and the corner storefront is also a later one.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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