60-05 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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

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1906
Paul Stier buys the former Debevoise farmland that this block of 69th Avenue later covers
In 1906 Paul Stier bought a large part of the old Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue, between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, and started building on it in 1907. Born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, Stier came to America alone in 1891, trained as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo and settled in the Ridgewood area in 1902. He went on to erect 481 buildings in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, about half of its row houses.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Paul Stier builds 60-05 69th Avenue to a Louis Berger & Company design
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Builder Paul Stier put up this Renaissance Revival two-family house around 1908 under new-building permit 1766 of that year, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. Two stories over a basement, it is faced in tan iron-spot brick trimmed with rough-faced gray brick bands and rough-faced limestone lintels, and has a rounded two-story bay under a metal cornice with festoons. It is one of 23 two-family houses from 60-03 to 60-47, bracketed by store-and-flats buildings at 60-01 and 60-49.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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