60-18 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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1. 1908

   Louis Berger & Company designs 60-18 69th Avenue as one of Paul Stier's porch-front row houses

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   Built about 1908 under new-building application 349 of that year, this two-family house on Block 3516, Lot 9 was first owned by builder Paul Stier and is one of 24 buildings in its row, 60-02 to 60-48. It shares the row's Renaissance Revival front by Louis Berger & Company, with a full-height curved bay and a cornice of consoles and swags. Its original porch and front door survive, as do the old stoop newel posts, now paired with newer railings, and wood porch railings under added metal ones.

   “Non-historic stoop railings with original newel posts; non-historic metal railings at porch sides above original wood railings…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1908

   Stier's crews apparently leave arches open in party walls to speed work on rows like this one

   Stier and Berger finished houses quickly by reusing a handful of floor plans and facade designs with varied surface treatments, tied together by continuous cornices. The brick walls between neighboring houses in each row had relieving arches that apparently stayed open during construction, so workers and materials could pass from house to house instead of going in and out by each stoop. The report suggests the openings were probably closed only when the houses were nearly finished.

   “…the brick party walls between separate buildings within each row had interior relieving arches that appear to have been left open during construction…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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