60-03 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1914

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.

1900
A two-story house goes up on Putnam Avenue around 1900, builder unknown
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this two-story row house to about 1900 but could not determine who designed it or who first owned it. Over the years it lost its cornice and original stoop and gained a stepped gable parapet, an aluminum awning and new metal railings. When the Central Ridgewood Historic District was designated, its facade was in the middle of being resurfaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
The landmarks report names this house as typical of the district's early wood-frame row houses
In its 2014 report on the Central Ridgewood Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission named 60-03 and its neighbor 60-05 Putnam Avenue as examples of the district's first wood-frame row houses. Such houses were put up in the late 1800s in fashionable styles of the day, mostly Neo-Grec and Queen Anne. The report notes that they have since been stripped of their ornament and covered in assorted modern sidings.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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