59-15 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1914

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

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1914
Joseph Meyerrose, elected sheriff in 1903, builds a short row of houses on family land
Joseph Meyerrose, born in 1859, kept farming the land his father Joachim had bought before selling parcels to builders around 1900. Elected Queens County sheriff in 1903, he later developed more of the property himself, and in 1914 he put up the row at 59-13 to 59-19 Putnam Avenue, one of three small rows he built in 1913-14. Louis Berger & Company designed all of them.
“59-12 to 59-16 Madison Street (1913) and 59-13 to 59-19 Putnam Avenue (1914). Meyerrose used Louis Berger & Company to design all of these buildings.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
The two-story brick house keeps its rusticated stone stoop from about 1914
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this row house to about 1914 and attributes it to Louis Berger & Company, probably for Joseph Meyerrose. Its survey lists an L-shaped rusticated stone stoop with a grille, flat arched lintels over the windows and a decorated frieze under a modillioned cornice, alongside a newer wood-and-glass door, an aluminum awning and modern metal fencing at the concrete areaway.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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