59-19 69th Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1908
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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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- 1908
Kilian Schurger builds 59-19 as a two-family house in a Louis Berger row
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Developer Kilian Schurger put up this two-story house around 1908 under new building application 1023-1908, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. It belongs to a run of 16 two-family houses from 59-05 to 59-35 69th Avenue. Its front of orange iron-spot brick swells into a rounded bay that rises the full height, with limestone lintels carved in stylized leaves and a metal cornice hung with festoons.
- 1910
The row's builder, German immigrant Kilian Schurger, lives down the row at 59-37
Kilian Schurger, who built this house, was a German immigrant who arrived in New York in 1881; by 1913 he had put up more than 200 buildings around Ridgewood. The 1910 census found him owning and living in 87 Foxall Street, today 59-37 69th Avenue, a house he had built in 1908 at the end of this same row.
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