60-24 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
60-24 70th Avenue rises as part of Paul Stier's 1907 row of shallow-bay houses
Paul Stier built this two-family house in 1907 to plans by Louis Berger & Company, recorded under permit NB 826-1907. The landmark report names the north-side row 60-10 to 60-44 70th Avenue as a typical example of Stier's early shallow-bay houses: two stories on a raised basement, three bays wide, with two bays set in a gentle curve. At designation this house still had its original cast-iron newel posts, wrought-iron stoop railings and areaway fence, though its door was a replacement.
“Typical examples of Stier's shallow bay houses include 60-11 to 60-43 71th Avenue (1907), 60-10 to 60-44 70th Avenue (1907)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Stier's bricklaying crews, many German and Italian immigrants, lay the face brick of houses like this one
To build his Ridgewood houses, Paul Stier engaged two local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, who oversaw about 50 bricklayers. Many of those workers were immigrants from Germany and Italy, and they set both the face brick and the stone ornament. Much of the stone and ironwork came from local firms, many owned by people of German descent; the Evergreen Steam Stone Works on Myrtle Avenue made most of the stone for the stoops.
“Paul Stier hired a pair of local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, to supervise a staff of 50 or so bricklayers…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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