59-24 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 59-24 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. 59-24 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
59-24 68th Road may keep its original windows, the commission's survey notes
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In its December 2014 report on the Central Ridgewood Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission listed the windows of 59-24 68th Road as possibly historic, on both the upper stories and the basement, with storm sashes fitted at every window. The house also kept its historic doors and original cornice, while its newel posts had been removed and a television antenna and satellite dish added on the roof.
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