60-11 71st Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1907

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

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1907
Paul Stier builds a shallow-bay two-family house on 71st Avenue
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Builder Paul Stier filed new-building permit 200-1907 for this two-family house and the rest of his row, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. The front has two curved bays, rough-faced brick panels under the first-story windows and a pressed-metal cornice with swags. Its original stoop survives, but the door lintel was later removed and replaced with stucco tinted to match the brick.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Paul Stier, Ridgewood's busiest builder, begins his great building run
Paul Stier, born in Mecklenburg in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and trained as a mason in Buffalo before moving to Ridgewood in 1902. He bought much of the old Debevoise farm in 1906 and started building on it in 1907, the year this house was filed. Between 1907 and 1909 he put up 392 of the 481 buildings he developed in the district, and a small street in the district bears the name Stier Place.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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