60-43 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
Louis Berger & Company designs 60-43 as the end house of a 1907 Paul Stier row
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Filed under new-building permit NB 794-1907, this two-family house was drawn by Louis Berger & Company for builder Paul Stier. It rises two stories over a basement in Renaissance Revival dress, three bays wide with two of them pushed out in a curve, and still wears its original bracketed metal cornice, trimmed with swags. Its stoop has since been replaced and its partly visible east wall covered in stucco and paint.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Paul Stier, the district's most prolific builder, begins building on the old Debevoise farm
Paul Stier, born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone in 1891 and worked as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. In 1906 he acquired a large part of the old Debevoise family farm north of Myrtle Avenue, and in 1907, the year of this house, he began building on it in earnest; his shallow-bay row at 60-11 to 60-43 71st Avenue dates from that year. Between 1907 and 1909 he raised 392 of the 481 buildings he put up in what is now the historic district, and a small street there, Stier Place, carries his name.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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