58-20 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1901

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
Architect Siegfried H. Schmidt builds a freestanding brownstone house for himself
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Around 1909 Siegfried H. Schmidt, listed as both architect and original owner, put up this freestanding Neo-Classical house under New Building permit 860-1909. Faced in brownstone, it has a full-height angled bay, a high L-shaped stoop of rough-faced and smooth stone, and an entrance portico with classical columns and a denticulated cornice. Carved classical panels sit beneath the windows, and a one-story brick garage was added behind it sometime between 1914 and 1936.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Siegfried H. Schmidt, a German-born builder's son, designs the house he owns
Siegfried H. Schmidt, born in Germany in 1877, came to the United States as a child in 1884. His father, Henry Schmidt, was a builder, and census records and city directories list Siegfried as an architect, a builder or both, living in Bushwick and later Richmond Hill while working in Manhattan. The Landmarks Commission's appendix of architects lists this house as his only work in the Central Ridgewood district; he also designed houses in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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