59-25 70th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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

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1909
Louis Berger & Company designs a curved-bay two-family house for Kilian Schurger
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Kilian Schurger was the original owner of this two-family house, filed in 1909 under permit NB 1818-1909 with Louis Berger & Company as architect. Its Renaissance Revival front swells out in three curved bays, with limestone sills running in continuous bands around the curves. A brownstone water table runs along the base, foliated brackets hold up the entrance lintel, and the original pressed-metal cornice is trimmed with dentils and swags.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Kilian Schurger, a German immigrant builder of more than 200 Ridgewood buildings, develops houses here
The house's developer, Kilian Schurger, was a German immigrant who arrived in New York in 1881; by 1913 he had put up more than 200 buildings across greater Ridgewood. He hired Louis Berger & Company for his rows in the district, which closely resemble the houses of the builder Paul Stier. The 1910 census found Schurger living in a house he had built elsewhere in the district, 87 Foxall Street (now 59-37 69th Avenue), which dates from 1908.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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