60-38 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
Paul Stier files plans for 60-38 69th Avenue, a two-family house by Louis Berger & Company
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Builder Paul Stier was the first owner of this two-family house, put up around 1908 under new-building permit 349-1908. Louis Berger & Company drew the plans in the Renaissance Revival style, for a house two stories tall over a basement and built of brick, stone, wood and iron. It sits on lot 19 of Queens tax block 3516, on the even-numbered side of the avenue.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
60-38 69th Avenue keeps its curved bay but has a garage cut into its porch base
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The house is one of 24 buildings on its block front, 23 two-family row houses and a flats building numbered 60-02 to 60-48. Its full-height curved bay carries bands of rough-faced brick, rough-faced stone lintels and a cornice with consoles, swags and egg-and-dart. The porch has been rebuilt except for its roof, on new metal columns over a brick base, and a garage entrance now opens at the porch base onto a concrete driveway.
“Alterations: Non-historic stoop railings; porch replaced except for roof; non-historic metal columns and porch railings on brick base; non-historic garage entrance at porch base…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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