58-37 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 gray-brick two-family house goes up in the Doenecke row
Louis Berger & Company designed this house around 1909 (permit NB 824-1909) for Katherina Doenecke, as one of eight two-family houses numbered 58-33 to 58-47 69th Avenue. The two-story front is gray iron-spot brick with brownstone and limestone trim, a rounded bay rising its full height, and a bracketed limestone hood over the door. Its cornice carries foliated molding and festoons, though the commission's survey recorded its dentils as missing; the stoop's newel posts have also been removed and its railings replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
German-born mason Christian Doenecke builds the row this house belongs to
Christian Doenecke, born in 1859 in Helmershansen, Germany, came to the United States in 1883 and was naturalized three years later. By 1894 he was working as a mason and living in Brooklyn, where his family stayed for many years. Together with his wife Katherina he developed the houses at 58-03 to 58-47 69th Avenue, including this one, using plans by Louis Berger & Company that resemble the rows of the builder Paul Stier.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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