59-18 68th Road
Ridgewood | built 1911
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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 designs 59-18 68th Road for owner Ignatz Martin
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Under new-building application NB 2-1911, Louis Berger & Company designed a row of six two-family houses, 59-18 through 59-28 68th Road, for original owner Ignatz Martin. No. 59-18 is a two-story Renaissance Revival house over a basement, faced in iron-spot brick with brownstone and limestone trim. It has a full-height rounded bay, a classical door hood with Greek key ornament and a modillioned metal cornice with festoons.
- 1911
Ignatz Martin, a German-born real estate operator, develops the row
The developer and original owner of this row, Ignatz Martin (1864-1921), was a native of Germany who emigrated to America in 1898. By 1900 he was working as a real estate operator and living in Bushwick, and by 1915 he had moved to Richmond Hill. The Landmarks Preservation Commission credits him with many houses in Central Ridgewood, among them some of the district's earliest brick rows.
- 2014
Landmark survey finds 59-18 68th Road still has its historic stoop ironwork and doors
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Central Ridgewood was designated a historic district on December 9, 2014. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report recorded that 59-18 68th Road still had its historic iron stoop railings and newel posts and its historic main-entrance doors, along with its original cornice. Later additions included metal kickplates on the doors, a doorbell panel and utility meters at the basement.
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