60-41 71st 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 builds 60-41 71st Avenue as a two-family house designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-story house on a raised basement, built in 1907 under new-building permit NB 794-1907 as part of a row with plans by Louis Berger & Company. The Renaissance Revival brick-and-stone front has three bays, two of them in a shallow curved projection, rough-faced brick bands and stone lintels, and a bracketed pressed-metal cornice with swags. The brownstone stoop and the cornice are original.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Stier and Berger speed construction of rows like this one with a few floor plans and open party-wall arches
Paul Stier and Louis Berger finished their houses quickly, according to the Landmarks report, by reusing a small number of floor plans and dressing the same facade designs in different surface treatments. The brick party walls between houses in a row had interior relieving arches that seem to have been left open during construction, so workers and materials could move through the row without climbing every stoop.
“…used only a handful of basic floor plans, as well as façade designs to which different surface treatments were applied…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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