60-19 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 at 60-19 71st Avenue to plans by Louis Berger & Company
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-story brick and stone two-family house on a raised basement, built in 1907 under new-building permit 200 and designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Louis Berger & Company. Its front is three bays wide, with two of the bays in a curved projection, above a rough-faced brownstone stoop. The stoop still has its original cast-iron newel posts and wrought-iron railings.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
German-born builder Paul Stier puts up this house at the start of his busiest years in Ridgewood
Stier, the builder of this house, was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America on his own in 1891, working as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. From 1907 through 1909 he built 392 of the 481 buildings he eventually developed in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, roughly half of its row houses. A small street in the district, Stier Place, is named for him.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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