60-44 71st 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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1895
Louis Berger, architect of this house, opens the Bushwick firm that would design thousands of local buildings
Louis Berger, whose firm drew this house, was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, emigrated as a child in 1880 and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. After studying at Pratt Institute and apprenticing with Carrere & Hastings, he set up his own office in Bushwick in 1895, specializing in tenement houses and the laws that governed them. His firm became architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick through 1930, and Berger also served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“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
1909
Albert Tremmel builds 60-44 as one of a run of curved-bay two-family houses
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Owner Albert Tremmel had this two-family house put up in 1909 under permit NB 53-1909. Louis Berger & Company gave it a Renaissance Revival front of brick and stone, two stories over a basement, with two curved bays, a rough-faced brownstone stoop, incised stone panels beneath the first-floor windows and a bracketed metal cornice. Later changes include an aluminum awning and replacement ironwork on the stoop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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