60-14 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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1908
Louis Berger & Company designs 60-14 69th Avenue as part of a 24-building porch row for Paul Stier
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-family house on Block 3516, Lot 7, built about 1908 under new-building application 349 of that year. It is one of 24 buildings in its row, 23 two-family houses and one flats building numbered 60-02 to 60-48. Berger's Renaissance Revival front has a full-height curved bay, a porch across the whole width and a cornice with swags, consoles and egg-and-dart moldings; the porch roof was later sheathed in sheet metal.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Louis Berger, the architect of this house, becomes secretary-treasurer of the new firm Bauer & Stier
Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America as a boy in 1880, studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own office in Bushwick in 1895. He was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick by 1930. When Paul Stier teamed up with fellow builder August Bauer in 1910 to form Bauer & Stier, Inc., Berger was both its in-house architect and its secretary-treasurer, and he also led the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“In 1910, when Paul Stier and another local builder, August Bauer, formed Bauer & Stier, Inc., Berger was not only its resident architect…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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