60-15 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 two-family house that keeps its original ironwork and door
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Built by Paul Stier in 1907 from Louis Berger & Company plans, this curved-bay house is among the least altered in its row. The commission found its original cast-iron newel posts and wrought-iron stoop railings still in place, along with the original front door and the original cast-iron posts, fence and gate around the areaway. The main later additions are a wall lamp and utility meters.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Masons James Reilly and John MacDonald oversee the bricklaying
Stier relied on two local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, who oversaw about 50 bricklayers, many of them German and Italian immigrants, who laid the face brick and stone trim on his Ridgewood houses. Most of the brick used in Ridgewood was light-colored iron-spot brick made by Kreischer.
“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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