60-29 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1906

   Paul Stier, the Mecklenburg-born builder of this row, buys much of the old Debevoise farm

   In 1906 Paul Stier acquired a large part of the former Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue, between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, and started building on it in 1907. Born in Germany in 1874, he had come to America alone as a teenager in 1891, apprenticed as a mason in Buffalo, and settled in the Ridgewood area in 1902. He erected 481 buildings in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, 392 of them between 1907 and 1909.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1908

   Paul Stier builds a tan-brick two-family house with a rounded bay to Louis Berger's design

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   Builder Paul Stier put up this two-family house around 1908 under new-building permit 1766 of that year, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. It rises two stories over a basement in tan iron-spot brick, with a two-story rounded bay, stringcourses of rough-faced gray brick and a metal cornice trimmed with festoons and egg-and-dart. It belongs to a run of 23 two-family houses from 60-03 to 60-47, framed by store-and-flats buildings at 60-01 and 60-49.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 2014

   December 9

   Landmarks survey finds a basement garage carved out beneath the porch

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   When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the house in its December 2014 designation report, the central pier under the front porch had been taken out so a garage could be made in the basement, now closed by a roll-up door behind a brick-walled ramp. The porch itself had been rebuilt in brick, and the main doorway had been widened and given a classical surround, with a newer door frame holding glass-block sidelights.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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