60-55 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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

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1906
Paul Stier, the builder of this house, buys a large part of the old Debevoise farm
In 1906 Paul Stier acquired much of the former Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue, and in 1907 he began developing it intensively. Born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, he came to America alone as a teenager in 1891, stayed with relatives in Buffalo while working as a mason's apprentice, and moved to the Ridgewood area in 1902. Of the 481 buildings he eventually put up inside today's Central Ridgewood Historic District, 392 date from 1907 to 1909.
“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
1908
Paul Stier builds 60-55 69th Avenue at the head of a 23-building row
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Builder Paul Stier put up this two-family house around 1908 under new-building permit 1769 of that year, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. It begins a row of 23 buildings stretching to 60-99 69th Avenue: 22 two-family row houses plus a single flats building. The Renaissance Revival front has a curved bay rising the full height of the house, a pedimented stone door hood on brackets, and a cornice with egg-and-dart moldings, consoles and swags.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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