59-24 69th Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1908
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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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- 1908
59-24 goes up in rough-faced cement block instead of brick
Unlike the brick rows around it, this two-family house was built in 1908 of rough-faced cement block laid as ashlar. Slee & Bryson designed it for David Kensy under application 1332-1908. The front has four bays, three of them in an angled projection, with corner quoins and a pressed-metal cornice; the original front door and a metal-and-glass canopy over the entrance survive.
- 1908
The cement block house is one of a few freestanding houses among Ridgewood's rows
The Landmarks Preservation Commission names 59-24 among the handful of freestanding houses in the Central Ridgewood district, which is otherwise made up mostly of long rows. Others include a brownstone-fronted house at 58-20 69th Avenue (1909) and a brick house at 58-18 (1911). The report notes that these houses match the surrounding row houses in height, width and ornament.
“…the cement block house at 59-24 69th Avenue (1908; Slee & Bryson, architects)…”
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