60-07 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
Louis Berger & Company gives 60-07 69th Avenue an orange-brick front with a rounded bay
Built around 1908 for Paul Stier under new-building permit 1766, this two-family Renaissance Revival house by Louis Berger & Company is faced in orange iron-spot brick. Rough-faced gray brick stringcourses, limestone sills and a modillioned metal cornice with festoons finish the two-story rounded bay. Later owners replaced the porch columns and railing, refaced the stoop in stone and enclosed the space beneath the porch.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Masons James Reilly and John MacDonald run the bricklaying crews on Paul Stier's houses
To raise his Ridgewood houses, Paul Stier engaged two local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, who oversaw a crew of roughly 50 bricklayers. Many of those workers were immigrants from Germany and Italy, and they laid both the face brick and the stone ornament on the facades.
“Paul Stier hired a pair of local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, to supervise a staff of 50 or so bricklayers…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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