60-15 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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1908
Paul Stier builds 60-15 69th Avenue, an orange-brick two-family house by Louis Berger & Company
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Built about 1908 for Paul Stier under new-building application 1766 of that year, this two-family house on Block 3515, Lot 45 is one of 23 on its side of the block, from 60-03 to 60-47, with store-and-flats buildings at either end. Louis Berger & Company faced it in orange iron-spot brick banded with rough-faced gray brick. Later alterations covered the stoop in granite veneer, widened the main doorway and filled in the space under the porch, though the porch itself is original.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Stier's masons James Reilly and John MacDonald oversee about 50 bricklayers on his Ridgewood houses
To raise his Ridgewood rows, Paul Stier engaged two local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, who supervised a crew of roughly 50 bricklayers, many of them German and Italian immigrants, setting the face brick and stone trim. The Kreischer brick used in Ridgewood was mostly light-colored iron-spot brick with smooth faces, laid with tight joints, with rough-faced Kreischer brick for bands and panels. Ridgewood builders kept using Kreischer brick until the First World War.
“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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