59-23 Putnam Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1909
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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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- 1909
Henn & Ballweg build a pair of bay-fronted brick houses under one 1909 permit
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This house and its neighbor at 59-25 were built around 1909 under a single new-building permit (NB 309-1909) for the owners Henn & Ballweg, from designs by Louis Berger & Company. The Renaissance Revival front has a projecting bay banded in stone, a bracketed stone hood over the door and a bracketed cornice. The stoop was later rebuilt to add a second entrance and the areaway fence was removed.
- 1909
Louis Berger's firm, architect of thousands of Ridgewood buildings, designs the house
The architects, Louis Berger & Company, were the architect of record for more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings from 1895 to 1930. Berger, born in 1875 in Germany's Rheinpfalz, studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own office in Bushwick in 1895.
“Louis Berger & Company was the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in the Ridgewood-Bushwick area between 1895 and 1930.”
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