60-20 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1908
Louis Berger & Company designs 60-20 69th Avenue, which later gets a stone porch floor
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-family house on Block 3516, Lot 10, built about 1908 under new-building application 349 of that year as part of the 24-building row at 60-02 to 60-48. Berger gave it a full-height curved bay, a porch across the front and bands of rough-faced and decorative brick. Its original front door survives; the porch floor and the top step of the stoop were redone in stone, the porch railings replaced and a house-number plaque set beside the entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier nearly doubles his Ridgewood development by buying part of the neighboring Hulst farm
Stier's peak came in 1907-09: in those three years he completed 392 of the 481 buildings he would develop in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, this house among them. In 1909 he nearly doubled his development by buying a large part of the neighboring Hulst farm, north of Catalpa Avenue between 60th Lane and Fresh Pond Road. From 1910 on, his projects were partnerships with fellow builder August Bauer.
“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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