60-55 67th 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 60-55 67th Avenue, one of a matching run of curved-bay two-family houses
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Under permit NB 1929-1909, Paul Stier built this two-family house to designs by Louis Berger & Company, on the same permit as its neighbors at 60-51, 60-53 and 60-57 67th Avenue. Recorded on tax lot 67 of block 3531, it stands two stories over a basement with a full-height curved bay, stone lintels and sills and a bracketed metal cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
German-born builder Paul Stier is at the height of his output when this house goes up
Paul Stier, born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and trained as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. In 1906 he bought part of the old Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue. Between 1907 and 1909 he built 392 of his 481 buildings in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District, about half of its row houses; Stier Place is named for him.
“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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