60-10 Putnam Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1907
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1854
Joachim Meyerrose buys farmland north of Putnam Avenue that later becomes this row
Before any houses stood here, the land north of Putnam Avenue was farmland. Joachim Meyerrose, a Bremen native who had worked on the Debevoise farm, bought nine acres there from the Debevoises in 1854. His son Joseph kept farming it after his father retired, then around the turn of the century started selling pieces to local builders, who covered them with brick rows.
- 1907
Ignatz Martin builds the house in one of the first brick rows on the old Meyerrose farm
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The house belongs to the row at 60-02 to 60-12 Putnam Avenue, which builder Ignatz Martin put up in 1907 to plans by Louis Berger & Company. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts it among the early brick rows on the former Meyerrose farm. It notes that Berger's designs for these 1907 rows resemble, but are plainer than, the ones the firm had drawn for Martin a year earlier.
“60-02 to 60-12 Putnam Avenue (1907; Ignatz Martin, builder) ... All designed by Louis Berger & Company…”
- 1907
The two-story Renaissance Revival row house keeps its stone stoop and bracketed cornice
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Louis Berger & Company drew the brick house for owner Ignatz Martin: two stories over a basement, a stone stoop under a bracketed stone entrance hood, and a broad stone band across the facade above the basement windows. Bands of rough-cut stone tie together keystone lintels and sills, and an ornate bracketed cornice crowns the front. The door and windows have since been replaced, and an aluminum awning and metal fencing added.
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