59-20 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 59-20 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. 59-20 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.
- 2014
Survey of 59-20 68th Road notes its original railings under a later entrance awning
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's December 2014 report on the Central Ridgewood Historic District found that 59-20 68th Road kept its historic iron stoop railings and newel posts and its original cornice. The stoop had been painted, an awning added over the main entrance, the door and windows replaced, and conduit run up the facade from basement to second story.
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