60-35 71st Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1907

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

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1906
Paul Stier, a German-born mason turned builder, buys the farmland where he will raise this row
Paul Stier, born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and worked as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. In 1906 he acquired a large part of the old Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, the section of the district that includes this block. He began building intensively there in 1907, the year this row went up.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Paul Stier builds 60-35 71st Avenue as a two-family house designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-story house on a raised basement, built in 1907 under new-building permit NB 794-1907 as part of a row with plans by Louis Berger & Company. The Renaissance Revival brick-and-stone front has three bays, two of them in a shallow curved projection, rough-faced brick bands and stone lintels, and a bracketed pressed-metal cornice with swags. The stoop has since been replaced, though the original front door and cornice survive.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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