59-13 68th Road

Ridgewood | built 1910

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

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1911
Ignatz Martin builds this two-family house on 68th Road from Louis Berger's plans
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Ignatz Martin was the original owner of this two-story Renaissance Revival house, filed as NB 5-1911 and designed by Louis Berger & Company. It has a full-height rounded bay, incised stone lintels and a deep metal cornice with modillions and festoons. The landmarks survey found its historic areaway fence, newel posts, stair railing and gate intact, along with a one-story brick garage with two roll-down doors behind the house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Ignatz Martin, the house's builder, is a German-born real estate operator who started in Bushwick
Ignatz Martin, who lived from 1864 to 1921, was a native of Germany who arrived in America in 1898. By 1900 he was working as a real estate operator and living in Bushwick, and he had relocated to Richmond Hill by 1915. He built many houses in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, including some of its earliest brick rows in 1906, also designed by Louis Berger & Company.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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