59-14 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1913

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

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1913
Louis Berger & Company, architects of over 5,000 local buildings, design 59-14 Madison Street
The house was drawn by Louis Berger & Company, a firm credited as architect of record on more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings from 1895 to 1930. Berger, born in Germany's Rheinpfalz in 1875, studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his Bushwick office in 1895.
“Louis Berger & Company was the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in the Ridgewood-Bushwick area between 1895 and 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
December 9
59-14 Madison Street keeps its original cast-iron stoop railings and areaway fence
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Documented at designation in 2014, the curved-bay Renaissance Revival row house still had a stone stoop whose cast-iron railings and newel posts are historic and a cast-iron areaway fence and gate. Surveyors noted a replacement wood door with glass-block sidelights and transom, replaced windows and painted stone banding beneath its bracketed, dentiled cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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