60-06 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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1908
Paul Stier erects 60-06 69th Avenue, a porched two-family house by Louis Berger & Company
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-family house, built around 1908 under new-building permit 349 of that year and designed by Louis Berger & Company. The Renaissance Revival front of brick and stone has a full-height curved bay, a porch spanning its width, rough-faced stone lintels and a cornice with consoles, swags and egg-and-dart molding. It stands in a run of 24 buildings, 60-02 to 60-48, made up of 23 two-family row houses and one flats building.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Louis Berger, architect of record for over 5,000 local buildings, draws Stier's 69th Avenue rows
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Louis Berger, whose firm drew the plans for most buildings in the Central Ridgewood district, was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, emigrated as a child in 1880 and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. After studying at Pratt Institute and apprenticing with Carrere & Hastings, he opened his own office in Bushwick in 1895. Specializing in tenement design, he was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick through 1930 and served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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