60-47 68th 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 builds a three-story flats building with a shop on the ground floor
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Builder Paul Stier filed New Building permit 1917 of 1909 for this three-story brick flats building, drawn by Louis Berger & Company in the Renaissance Revival style. It has contrasting brick courses and a deep bracketed metal cornice with a frieze of festoons. The ground-floor store has since been bricked in, but a cast-iron column still stands next to the western door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier, a German-born former mason's apprentice, finishes his busiest years as a Ridgewood builder
Stier, who built this flats building, was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and worked as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. Of the 481 buildings he eventually put up in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, 392 went up in his busiest years, 1907 to 1909. 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

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