59-14 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
Louis Berger & Company, led by Ridgewood's most prolific architect, design the house
The house was designed by Louis Berger & Company. Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America as a boy in 1880, settled in Ridgewood in 1892, studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own office in Bushwick in 1895. From 1895 to 1930 he was the architect of record for more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, and he also served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
The house still opens through its original double wood-and-glass doors
Built under the 1911 new-building permit for Ignatz Martin's row, the two-family house has a full-height rounded bay, a bracketed limestone door hood, cast-stone lintels carved with arabesques and a modillioned cornice. The landmarks survey recorded its original double entrance doors of wood and glass with a transom above, along with its original stoop and cornice; later additions included a satellite antenna on the roof, a flag mount and a repointed front.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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