59-21 70th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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1. 1909

   Kilian Schurger builds a two-family house two years ahead of the Erbach row next door

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   Kilian Schurger was the original owner of this two-family house, built in 1909 under permit NB 1818-1909 from designs by Louis Berger & Company. It went up two years before Jacob Erbach's row of houses next door at 59-11 to 59-19, which the same architects designed in 1911. Today its stoop carries non-historic ironwork, and satellite dishes sit on the facade and roof.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1909

   German-born builder Kilian Schurger, this house's first owner, develops rows of houses across Ridgewood

   Kilian Schurger, who built this house in 1909, had come to New York from Germany in 1881. He developed several rows in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, a number of them designed by Louis Berger, and by 1913 he had put up more than 200 buildings in greater Ridgewood. The 1910 census found him living in a house of his own construction at 87 Foxall Street, today 59-37 69th Avenue.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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