60-38 70th 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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1907
Paul Stier files plans for a two-family row house at 60-38 70th Avenue
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Builder Paul Stier put up this two-story house on a raised basement in 1907 under new-building permit 826-1907, with Louis Berger & Company as architects. Its brick front has three bays, two of them in shallow curves, rising from a rough-faced brownstone stoop to a bracketed pressed-metal cornice hung with swags. Above the door is a molded pressed-metal lintel, also trimmed with swags.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
A German-born mason's apprentice becomes Ridgewood's biggest builder
Paul Stier, who built this house, was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America alone as a teenager in 1891, training as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo. He settled in the Ridgewood area in 1902, bought much of the old Debevoise farm in 1906 and began building on it in 1907. Of the 481 buildings he raised in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, 392 went up between 1907 and 1909.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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