58-18 69th Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1911
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1911
Builder Jacob Rodler puts up a semi-attached brick house designed by Louis Allmendinger
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Around 1911 Jacob Rodler built this semi-attached two-story house under New Building permit 2897-1911, with Louis Allmendinger as architect. It has an orange iron-spot brick front with a full-height rounded bay, a bracketed door hood carved with foliate ornament, limestone string courses and a modillioned cornice hung with festoons.
- 1911
Jacob Rodler, a German-born framer turned builder, develops houses across Ridgewood
Jacob Rodler, the original owner of this house, was born in Germany and started out in Queens as a framer before building multi-family houses, first of wood and later of masonry, soon after 1900. In 1911 he also put up a three-story row on Onderdonk Avenue, numbers 917 through 939, again with Allmendinger as architect. In the 1920s Rodler moved his company out to Hempstead, Long Island.
- 1911
Architect Louis Allmendinger, a brewer's son from Brooklyn, designs the house
Louis Allmendinger (1878-1937), the Brooklyn-born son of a German immigrant beer brewer, studied at Cooper Union and was practicing by 1901 from a base in Bushwick. Besides this house, his work includes a Brooklyn landmark built in 1916-21, the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. From 1926 until his death he worked in partnership with M. Allen Schlendorf, producing industrial and commercial buildings such as the J. Kurtz & Sons Store Building in Queens.
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