58-11 70th 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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1864
Joachim Meyerrose adds the land west of Forest Avenue, including this block, to his Newtown farm
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Joachim Meyerrose, a Bremen-born farmer who had settled in Newtown in 1844 and bought nine acres north of Putnam Avenue in 1854, enlarged his holdings ten years later by buying Woodard estate land west of Forest Avenue. That purchase took in the two blocks framed by Forest, Catalpa and Onderdonk Avenues and 70th Avenue, where this row now stands. His son Joseph kept farming it and, around the turn of the century, began selling parcels to local builders of brick rows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Louis Berger & Company designs 58-11 70th Avenue as a two-family house for Kilian Schurger
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This two-story house with a basement went up around 1909 under new-building permit 1819-1909 for its original owner, Kilian Schurger. It is one of nine matching two-family houses from 58-07 to 58-23 70th Avenue, all drawn by Louis Berger & Company. Its orange iron-spot brick front has a rounded bay that rises the full height, limestone lintels incised with stylized leaves, and a modillioned metal cornice. The steps down to the understoop door have since been replaced by a ramp between iron railings.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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