58-26 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
Kilian Schurger builds a two-family house at the head of a row of five
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This Renaissance Revival two-family house was filed under New Building permit 160-1909, with Kilian Schurger as original owner and Louis Berger & Company as architects. It is one of five two-family houses at 58-26 to 58-34 69th Avenue. Its orange iron-spot brick front has a full-height angled bay with rough-faced brick at the corner, and limestone lintels incised with stylized leaves.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
Kilian Schurger, the house's original owner, has built more than 200 Ridgewood buildings by 1913
Kilian Schurger, the original owner of this house, emigrated from Germany to New York in 1881, and by 1913 he had put up more than 200 buildings in greater Ridgewood. On 69th Avenue he developed rows in 1908 at 59-01 to 59-37 and 59-26 to 59-40, all designed by Louis Berger. The 1910 census found him living in one of his own houses, 87 Foxall Street, now 59-37 69th Avenue, which he had built in 1908.
“…by 1913 was responsible for the construction of over 200 buildings in greater Ridgewood…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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