60-28 68th 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, the district's most prolific builder, develops 60-28 68th Avenue in his busiest years
Paul Stier, the original owner of this house, was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874 and crossed to America alone in 1891, apprenticing to a mason in Buffalo. He came to the Ridgewood area in 1902 and became its largest single developer, responsible for roughly half of all row houses within today's Central Ridgewood Historic District. Of his 481 buildings there, 392 went up between 1907 and 1909. Stier Place in the district bears his name.
“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
1908
Louis Berger & Company gives 60-28 a three-sided bay and glazed double doors
Designed by Louis Berger & Company for Paul Stier around 1908, this two-family house projects a full-height three-sided bay with one window in each face, framed by brick piers on stone bases. A molded hood with a leafy frieze rests on stone brackets over the entrance. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it, the original pair of wood-and-glass doors and the original masonry stoop were still in place.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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