60-34 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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1895
Louis Berger, who designed this house, opens his own architecture firm in Bushwick
Louis Berger was born in 1875 in Rheinpfalz, Germany, emigrated as a child in 1880 and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. After architecture studies at Pratt Institute and an apprenticeship with Carrere & Hastings he started his own firm in Bushwick in 1895, specializing in tenement houses and the laws that governed them. Between 1895 and 1930 he was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick, and he later served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“He studied architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and served as an apprentice with the firm Carrere & Hastings before establishing his own firm in Bushwick in 1895.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Paul Stier builds a curved-bay house that keeps its original masonry stoop
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-family house, built around 1908 under new-building permit 1988 and designed by Louis Berger & Company in the Renaissance Revival style. Two stories over a basement, it has a full-height curved bay with continuous molded stone sills and lintels, a stone door hood on brackets with an incised frieze, inset brick spandrel panels and a deep metal cornice. The commission recorded its masonry stoop as original, though the front door has been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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