60-42 70th 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 a curved-bay two-family house at 60-42 70th Avenue
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Builder Paul Stier filed this house in 1907 under permit 826-1907, one of the row on the south side of 70th Avenue designed for him by Louis Berger & Company. The two-story front of brick and stone has two curved bays, rough-faced stone window lintels, a band of decorative brick under the second-story sills, and a molded pressed-metal lintel with swags over the entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
The row from 60-10 to 60-44 70th Avenue is named as a typical Stier shallow-bay row
The landmarks report picks out the 1907 row running from 60-10 to 60-44 70th Avenue, which includes this house, as a typical example of Stier's earliest model: three-bay houses with shallow curved bays. These houses stand two stories high on raised basements, and Stier kept building shallow-bay rows like this one through 1909.
“Typical examples of Stier's shallow bay houses include 60-11 to 60-43 71th Avenue (1907), 60-10 to 60-44 70th Avenue (1907)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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