59-55 Madison Street
Ridgewood | built 1930
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1909
Anton Kluepfel builds a three-story corner building with a cornice wrapping two facades
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Filed under permit 310-1909, this three-story brick building was put up about 1909 for Anton Kluepfel to designs by Louis Berger & Company. Header brick corbelling turns the corner, and the bracketed, denticulated cornice above it continues across both the south and east facades; the east side has four chimneys at the roofline. The Commission also recorded a one-story, one-car garage on the lot.
- 1960
The ground-floor storefront is reconfigured around 1960
According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building notes, the first-floor shopfront was reconfigured around 1960. The ground story now has asymmetrical window bays and a newer wood-and-glass door under an aluminum awning.
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