60-09 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
A Stier row house goes up that may still keep its original upper windows
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Built around 1908 for Paul Stier to designs by Louis Berger & Company, this two-family house has a full-height curved bay and a full-width porch. It still has wood brickmolds around the first- and second-story windows, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission judged its upper-story windows possibly historic. Its front door is original, though the stoop and porch railings are new, storm windows were added upstairs and the western porch column is gone.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Masons James Reilly and John MacDonald lead the crews that lay Stier's brick
To raise his Ridgewood houses, Paul Stier hired two local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, who oversaw some 50 bricklayers, many of them German and Italian immigrants, in setting the face brick and stone trim. The Kreischer brick works on Staten Island supplied brick used throughout Ridgewood, including this district, and its rock-faced brick was used there for band courses and decorative panels. This 1908 house has bands and inset panels of rough-faced brick.
“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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