60-38 71st Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1909
Albert Tremmel has 60-38 71st Avenue built as a two-family house to plans by Louis Berger & Company
Albert Tremmel was the original owner of this two-story house on a raised basement, filed as new building NB 54-1909 and designed by Louis Berger & Company. Its Renaissance Revival front of brick and stone has three bays, two in a curved projection, a rough-faced brownstone stoop, incised stone panels under the first-floor windows and a bracketed pressed-metal cornice with egg-and-dart moldings. A molded pressed-metal entry lintel on foliated brackets survives above the door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Louis Berger, architect of more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, designs this house
The house's architect, Louis Berger, was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, reached America in 1880 as a young boy and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. After studying at Pratt Institute and apprenticing with Carrere & Hastings, he opened his own Bushwick office in 1895 and specialized in tenement design and the laws that governed it. From 1895 to 1930 his name appeared as architect of record on more than 5,000 Bushwick and Ridgewood buildings, and he also served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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