59-23 68th Road

Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1911
59-23 68th Road goes up as a twin of Ignatz Martin's house next door
No new-building application has been found for 59-23 68th Road, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission attributes the c. 1911 two-family house to Louis Berger & Company, with Ignatz Martin as its possible first owner. It was originally identical to the adjacent house, which Berger designed and Martin built. It is two stories over a basement, with a full-height rounded bay, stone water table and a deep metal cornice with modillions and festoons.
“Building was originally identical in design to adjacent building designed by Louis Berger & Company and built by Ignatz Martin; no NB found…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
December
59-23 68th Road keeps its original stoop and glass-and-wood doors, the survey finds
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's December 2014 report on the Central Ridgewood Historic District recorded that 59-23 68th Road still had its original masonry stoop and its original double doors of glass and wood, with a transom and paneled reveal. Its stone door hood on brackets and its metal cornice also survived, while an aluminum awning, an intercom and metal door panels had been added.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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