2985 Perry Avenue

Bedford Park | built 1912

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

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1912
April 30
Builders finish No. 2985 and the rest of Kingston's nine-house Perry Avenue row
Work on the nine houses that make up the Perry Avenue Historic District was completed on April 30, 1912, at an estimated cost of $6,500 per house. They rest on stone and brick foundations, with brick walls carried on iron girders, and sit raised above fieldstone walls around small front yards, which gives even the attached houses such as No. 2985 a suburban look.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
Bertha Stemmler, a New Yorker with German parents, is an early resident of No. 2985
Bertha Stemmler was among the early residents of No. 2985. Unlike several of her German-born neighbors on the row, she was born in New York, though her parents came from Germany. The house was later converted into a multiple dwelling, one of four in the row to be split up, and many such conversions were done illegally and only made legal later with fire escapes and other safety work.
“Bertha Stemmler of no. 2985 was born in New York, though to German parents.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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