59-28 Madison Street

Ridgewood | built 1907

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1. 1907

   Louis Berger & Company designs 59-28 Madison Street as one of John Eisenhauer's row houses

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   Built around 1907 under permit NB 508-1907, this two-story-and-basement Renaissance Revival row house was designed by Louis Berger & Company for builder John Eisenhauer. Flat arched lintels sit over every window, and stone bands running across the facade double as sills, with red brick panels below the first-floor windows and a denticulated, bracketed cornice on top. A wood-and-glass double door with a transom may be original; the stone lintel over the entrance is gone and the stonework has been painted.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1907

   John Eisenhauer's 1907 row including 59-28 Madison Street rises on the old Meyerrose farm

   The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts the row at 59-22 to 59-30 Madison Street, built in 1907 by John Eisenhauer, among the early brick rows of the Central Ridgewood Historic District, all on land that had been the Meyerrose farm. Like the 1907 rows by Anton Kluepfel, Ignatz Martin and Geier & Frey, it was designed by Louis Berger & Company and is a plainer version of the firm's 1906 rows for Martin, with flat, smooth, flush lintels and stone bands.

   “…include 59-22 to 59-30 Madison Street (1907; John Eisenhauer, builder), 59-34 to 59-48 Madison Street (1907; Anton Kluepfel, builder)…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1907

   German-born carpenter John Eisenhauer builds 59-28 Madison Street

   John Eisenhauer (1869-1938), born in Baden, Germany, immigrated as a child with his family, led by his carpenter father Nicolas, and was living in Brooklyn by 1880. He took up his father's trade, was a carpenter by 1900, and lived in Ridgewood, apparently for the rest of his life. This house belongs to his 1907 row at 59-22 to 59-30 Madison Street, designed by Louis Berger & Company.

   “Eisenhauer built the rows at 59-22 to 59-30 Madison Street (1907) and 59-15 to 59-35 Madison Street (1907-08), all designed by Louis Berger & Company.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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