60-39 70th 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 builds a porch-fronted two-family house at 60-39 70th Avenue
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This two-story house was built under permit 74-1908 as one of 24 buildings on the north side of 70th Avenue, from 60-01 to 60-47: a single flats building and 23 two-family row houses. Louis Berger & Company drew the plans, giving it a full-height curved bay and a porch across the whole front. The porch has since been closed in, but two original newel posts still flank the front gate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
The house belongs to Stier's second model, with open wooden porches on brick piers
The landmarks report sorts Stier's houses into three models; this row on 70th Avenue is one of three adjacent rows of 1908 built with full-width porches. As first built, these wooden porches rested on brick columns, with Tuscan columns holding up a corniced roof, and were reached by graystone stoops with cast-iron newels. The report likens them to the porches Louis Berger & Company designed for nearby Stockholm Street.
“Three adjacent rows, all constructed in 1908, have these porches: 60-02 to 60-54 69th Avenue, 60-01 to 60-49 69th Avenue, and 60-01 to 60-49 70th Avenue.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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