60-31 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1906

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1898
Ignatz Martin, later this building's developer, emigrates from Germany to the United States
Ignatz Martin (1864-1921), who developed this row, was born in Germany and arrived in the United States in 1898. By 1900 he had set himself up as a real estate operator living in Bushwick. He went on to build many houses in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, including a 1911 row at 59-12 to 59-26 68th Avenue, also designed by Louis Berger & Company, and by 1915 he was living in Richmond Hill.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1906
Ignatz Martin builds one of the district's first brick rows here to plans by Louis Berger & Company
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This building is part of the row at 60-23 to 60-31 68th Avenue that Ignatz Martin erected in 1906 from designs by Louis Berger & Company. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts these among the oldest masonry rows in Central Ridgewood, put up right after local building laws stopped wood construction in the area. The fronts carry rough-faced splayed lintels with projecting keystones, round-arched openings on the upper floor, rough-faced stone bands and pressed-metal cornices trimmed with modillions and swags.
“These rows, which were built in 1906, just after the building laws prohibiting wood construction in this area came into effect, include the two-story tenements at 60-23 to 60-31 68th Avenue…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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