60-38 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1913

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

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1913
Anton Kluepfel, a German-born former baker and sailor, is the original owner of 60-38
Anton Kluepfel, the original owner of the 1913 apartment building at 60-38 Putnam Avenue, was born in Steinfeld, Germany, in 1870 and came to America in 1886 while still a teenager. He worked as a baker and then a sailor before setting up as a builder by 1900, sometimes partnering with his brother George on rows in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District. In 1910 he lived at 59-48 Madison Street, in a row he had built in 1907.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
Louis Berger & Company designs 60-38 as a three-story apartment house for Anton Kluepfel
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Built for owner Anton Kluepfel to plans by Louis Berger & Company under permit NB 2579-1913, 60-38 Putnam Avenue is a Renaissance Revival apartment building of three stories over a basement, faced in brick and stone. Its central doorway keeps a historic stone hood on brackets, framed by fluted pilasters, and the windows on all three floors carry flat lintels with keystones. Corbelled brick pilasters flank the upper two floors and meet a band of corbelled brick below a decorated frieze and a bracketed cornice with dentils.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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