60-42 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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

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1909
Paul Stier, the district's most prolific house builder, puts up 60-42 Putnam Avenue
60-42 was built in 1909, at the end of Paul Stier's busiest stretch: from 1907 to 1909 he erected 392 of the 481 buildings he developed in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, where he built about half of all the row houses. Born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, Stier came to America alone as a teenager in 1891, apprenticed as a mason in Buffalo, and moved to Ridgewood in 1902. A small street in the district, Stier Place, carries his name.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Louis Berger & Company gives Paul Stier's house at 60-42 a curved front bay
Filed under permit NB 1914-1909, 60-42 Putnam Avenue is a two-story Renaissance Revival row house on a basement, designed by Louis Berger & Company for Paul Stier. Its brick front swells into a curved projecting bay, the doorway keeps a historic stone hood on brackets, and rough-cut stone bands run between the lintels and sills before a decorated frieze and a modillioned cornice. The stoop, front door and fencing have been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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