60-07 70th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1908

    Paul Stier builds a two-family porch house in his 1908 row on 70th Avenue

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    Louis Berger & Company designed this Renaissance Revival house, built around 1908 for Paul Stier under the same permit as its row of 23 two-family houses and a corner flats building. It has a full-height curved bay, a full-width front porch, bands of rough-faced and patterned brick, and a cornice with swags and egg-and-dart moldings. Metal porch columns and railings have replaced the originals, and a house-number plaque now hangs by the door.

    “…non-historic metal porch columns and porch railings; non-historic infill at porch base between historic brick piers; plaque with house number…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1908

    Louis Berger, architect of thousands of Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, plans Stier's houses

    Every Paul Stier building in the district, this one included, was designed by or credited to Louis Berger & Company. Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America in 1880, studied architecture at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his Bushwick office in 1895. A specialist in tenement design and tenement law, he drew the plans of record for more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings from 1895 to 1930, and also 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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