58-21 69th 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
A buff-brick two-family house rises in Katherina Doenecke's row on 69th Avenue
Katherina Doenecke was the original owner of this two-family house, built around 1909 under permit 3214-1909 as part of a row of six at 58-15 to 58-25 69th Avenue. Louis Berger & Company designed it in the Renaissance Revival style with buff iron-spot brick, a full-height rounded bay and a bracketed limestone door hood. When the Landmarks Commission surveyed the row for its district report, the house still had its historic iron areaway fence and gate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Louis Berger, Ridgewood's most prolific architect, designs the house
The plans came from Louis Berger & Company, architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick from 1895 to 1930. Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, arrived in America in 1880, settled in Ridgewood in 1892, studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own Bushwick office in 1895. He specialized in tenement design and later headed the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick from 1895 to 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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