59-12 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1911
German-born builder Ignatz Martin puts up a row of eight two-family houses here
Ignatz Martin (1864-1921) built 59-12 through 59-26 68th Avenue in 1911 from plans by Louis Berger & Company, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission found the row closely similar to many of Paul Stier's rows. Martin came to the United States from Germany in 1898, was working as a real estate operator in Bushwick by 1900, and had moved on to Richmond Hill by 1915. Earlier he had built some of the first brick rows in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District.
“He also built a later row at 59-12 to 59-26 68th Avenue (1911, Louis Berger & Company, architects) that closely resembles many of Stier's rows.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
The house at the row's western end keeps its historic areaway fence, gate and stair railings
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The two-story Renaissance Revival house, the first in Martin's row, has a rounded bay rising its full height, a bracketed limestone hood over the door, limestone bands at sill and lintel level, and a cornice trimmed with egg-and-dart molding and festoons. The commission's survey found its stone stoop and cornice original and its areaway fence, gate, newel posts and stair railings historic, though the doors and windows had been replaced and the side wall to the west was parged.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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