60-13 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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1906
Paul Stier, a German immigrant trained as a mason, buys part of the old Debevoise farm in Ridgewood
Stier, born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and worked as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. In 1906 he acquired a large part of the old Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue and began building there in earnest the following year. He went on to erect about half of the row houses in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, this one among them, and a small street there is called Stier Place.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Paul Stier builds 60-13 69th Avenue as a two-family house designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Around 1908 builder Paul Stier put up this two-family house on Block 3515, Lot 46, under new-building application 1766 of that year. Louis Berger & Company designed it in the Renaissance Revival style, two stories over a basement, with tan iron-spot brick, a rounded two-story bay and a front porch on classical columns. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it, the stoop and porch were still original, including a historic wood railing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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