60-28 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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1906
Paul Stier buys a large piece of the old Debevoise farm and starts building rows like this one the next year
The part of the district east of Forest Avenue and south of Catalpa Avenue had been a farm owned by the Debevoise family, which sold it off to investors and speculators around 1900. In 1906 Paul Stier acquired a large section of it north of Myrtle Avenue, between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, and began building intensively the next year. In 1909 he nearly doubled his holdings by buying part of the neighboring Hulst family farm.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
60-28 70th Avenue goes up in 1907 and still keeps its original front door and stoop ironwork
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Paul Stier built the house in 1907 (permit NB 826-1907) to designs by Louis Berger & Company, in the same three-bay, curved-front pattern as the rest of its row. At designation in 2014 it retained its original door, cast-iron newel posts and wrought-iron stoop railings, along with its original cast-iron and wrought-iron areaway fence and gate. Changes included a partly painted stoop, a painted water table and an aluminum awning.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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