60-35 70th 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
Paul Stier builds 60-35 70th Avenue, a two-family porch house designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Built around 1908 under new building permit 74 of that year, 60-35 70th Avenue had builder Paul Stier as its original owner and Louis Berger & Company as architects. The two-story Renaissance Revival house, on Queens tax block 3516, lot 35, combines a full-height curved bay with a full-width front porch and bands of rough-faced and decorative brick. Its row is one of three adjacent 1908 Stier rows built with open wood porches on brick columns, reached by graystone stoops and roofed on Tuscan columns. The report notes that many of these porches have since been altered.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2014
60-35 70th Avenue's porch is rebuilt around its historic center brick pier
The 2014 landmarks survey recorded that the porch had been replaced except for its roof, now covered with sheet metal, with newer metal railings and piers and infill at the base around a painted historic brick pier at the center. Window grilles had been added on the first story, a satellite dish sat on the roof, and the front door had been replaced, though the cornice was original.
“…non-historic infill at porch base with painted center historic brick pier; non-historic first-story window grilles; wires attached to facade; satellite dish on roof…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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