60-39 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1907

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1907

    60-39 goes up as part of one of the early brick rows on the old Meyerrose farm

    According to the Central Ridgewood designation report, the district's earliest brick rows went up in its northern section, where the old Hulst and Meyerrose farmland was the first to be opened for building. The report lists the 1907 row at 60-35 to 60-41 Putnam Avenue, put up by the builders Geier & Frey to plans by Louis Berger & Company, among the early brick rows that all stand on what had been the Meyerrose farm.

    “Other early brick rows, all of which are found on the former Meyerrose farm, include ... 60-35 to 60-41 Putnam Avenue (1907; Geier & Frey, builders)…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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