60-25 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
Paul Stier builds 60-25 69th Avenue in a 1908 row fronted by open wood porches
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This house belongs to the row at 60-01 to 60-49 69th Avenue, one of three adjacent rows that builder Paul Stier completed in 1908 with full-width front porches. According to the Landmarks commission, the porches resembled those Louis Berger & Company designed in the nearby Stockholm Street Historic District: open wood platforms on brick columns, reached by graystone stoops with cast-iron newel posts, their roofs carried on Tuscan columns. Many have since been altered.
“Three adjacent rows, all constructed in 1908, have these porches: 60-02 to 60-54 69th Avenue, 60-01 to 60-49 69th Avenue…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
The 2014 survey classes the porch of 60-25 as original
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The Landmarks commission's 2014 profile of 60-25 classed its porch as original and listed classical porch columns, a wood post next to the stoop and brick support piers among its significant features. The rounded bay, gray brick stringcourses and festooned cornice also survived. Changes included removed stoop newel posts and replaced railings, a new door frame with transom, and a wood hatch in front of the basement door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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