60-43 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1911
Paul Stier's 1911 house at 60-43 keeps its stoop, double door and cast-iron fence
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Built for Paul Stier under permit NB 1727-1911 to designs by Louis Berger & Company, 60-43 Putnam Avenue is a two-story Renaissance Revival row house with a curved projecting bay. The landmarks survey found a possibly historic stone stoop, a historic wood-and-glass double door under a bracketed stone hood, and cast-iron railings, newel posts, gate and areaway fence that may also be historic.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Louis Berger, architect of more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, draws 60-43 for Stier
Louis Berger, whose firm designed 60-43, was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, emigrated as a boy in 1880 and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. After studying at Pratt Institute and apprenticing with Carrere & Hastings, he opened his own office in Bushwick in 1895 and became the architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings there and in Ridgewood through 1930. When Stier and August Bauer formed Bauer & Stier, Inc. in 1910, Berger served as its architect and secretary-treasurer.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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