60-18 70th 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 the two-family house at 60-18 70th Avenue
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Builder Paul Stier was the original owner of this house, put up in 1907 under permit NB 826-1907 with plans by Louis Berger & Company. It occupies lot 10 of Queens tax block 3517 and was built as a two-family house of brick and stone, two stories over a basement, in the Renaissance Revival style.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
The house keeps its brownstone stoop but loses its original door and ironwork
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The front is three bays wide with two curved bays, a rough-faced brownstone stoop and water table, stone lintels and a bracketed cornice of pressed metal trimmed with swags and egg-and-dart moldings. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described it, the stoop itself was original, but its ironwork and the front door had been replaced, a mailbox and wall lamp had been mounted by the entrance, and the areaway had a new wrought-iron fence and gate.
“Alterations: Replacement ironwork on the stoop; mailbox and non-historic wall lamp next to the main entryway…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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