60-05 70th 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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1908
Stier and Berger complete a curved-bay house with a full-width porch
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This two-story house on a basement went up around 1908 for builder Paul Stier, designed by Louis Berger & Company as one of 23 two-family row houses on the block front. Its brick front swells into a full-height curved bay behind a porch spanning the whole facade, with rough-faced stone lintels and a cornice trimmed with egg-and-dart moldings, consoles and swags. The outer porch columns were later taken out and the stoop and porch railings replaced.
“Alterations: Non-historic stoop and porch railings; outer porch columns removed…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
German-born builder Paul Stier puts up this house during his busiest years in Ridgewood
Paul Stier, born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and worked as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. He went on to build about half of the row houses in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, and from 1907 to 1909, his busiest stretch, he built 392 of his 481 buildings there. This 1908 house dates from those years. A small street in the district, Stier Place, carries his name.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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