60-30 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
Stier and Berger raise a porch-fronted two-family house in a 24-building row
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This two-family house went up around 1908 for builder Paul Stier, filed as new-building permit 349 of that year and designed by Louis Berger & Company. Its brick front has a curved bay running the full height, a porch across the whole width, bands of rough-faced and patterned brick, and a cornice with consoles and swags. It is one of 24 buildings from 60-02 to 60-48 69th Avenue: 23 two-family row houses and one flats building.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Architect Louis Berger becomes an officer of the new Bauer & Stier building firm
In 1910 Paul Stier and fellow builder August Bauer formed Bauer & Stier, Inc., with Louis Berger, who drew the plans for Stier's houses, serving as its house architect and as secretary-treasurer. Born in the Rheinpfalz in 1875, Berger trained at Pratt Institute and under Carrere & Hastings before opening his own office in Bushwick in 1895. Between 1895 and 1930 his name went on the plans of more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, and he served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“…when Paul Stier and another local builder, August Bauer, formed Bauer & Stier, Inc., Berger was not only its resident architect…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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