60-21 Putnam Avenue

also 66-78 60th Place | Ridgewood | built 1916

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1916

    Henry Schlachter files plans for the row house with Louis Berger & Company

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    Henry Schlachter was the original owner of this two-story Renaissance Revival row house, filed in 1916 under permit NB 1388-1916 with Louis Berger & Company as architect. Its brick front has a transom and bracketed stone hood at the entrance, rough-cut stone bands linking the sills and lintels, and a wide decorated frieze under a denticulated, bracketed cornice.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1916

    Henry Schlachter, a German-born mason turned builder, develops the house

    Henry Schlachter (1860-1921) left Germany for the United States in 1880 and started out as a mason. He built two-family houses and six-family flats in Bushwick and Ridgewood, worked on the rectory of St. Matthias R.C. Church, and later developed single-family houses north of Jamaica Village. A May 1917 Brooklyn Daily Eagle story cited in the landmarks report ran under the headline that Schlachter was denied a place in a war unit because he 'Has Teuton Name.'

    “Henry Schlachter (1860-1921) was born in Germany, and came to the United States in 1880 to begin his career as a mason.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1916

    The house's east side is finished as a second designed facade

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    The house's east side was also treated as a designed facade: parged brick with stone lintels and sills at the windows and a denticulated, bracketed cornice. At the rear are a driveway and a one-story brick garage that may keep its original wood-and-glass garage door. The side wall has since been painted and its windows replaced, and chain-link fencing, white metal fencing and a gate now line the areaway and driveway.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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