60-24 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1913

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

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1913
Anton Kluepfel files plans for a three-story brick apartment house designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Builder Anton Kluepfel was the original owner of this three-story apartment building, filed under new-building permit NB 2578-1913 with Louis Berger & Company as architects. The Renaissance Revival front has an angled projecting bay, a bracketed stone hood framed by fluted pilasters over the center door, keystoned lintels, and a decorated frieze under a bracketed, denticulated cornice. Later owners replaced the stoop and front door and added an aluminum awning.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
Builder Anton Kluepfel, a German-born former baker and sailor, puts up this apartment building
Anton Kluepfel, who owned this building when it went up, was born in Steinfeld, Germany, in 1870 and came to America in 1886 as a teenager. He worked as a baker and then a sailor before establishing himself as a builder by 1900, putting up several rows in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, some of them with his brother George. The district's small Kleupfel Court may carry the family's name, misspelled.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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