60-55 71st Avenue

also 70-19 60th Lane | Ridgewood | built 1930

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

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1908
August Bauer builds a three-story store and apartment house at 60th Lane
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Builder August Bauer filed permit NB 2871-1908 for this corner building, designed by the Louis Berger Company with a shop at street level and apartments on the two floors above. Its upper floors keep rough-faced brick bands, molded lintels and a bracketed cornice with swags. The ground floor has since been rebuilt and its storefronts removed, and one-story brick garages with roll-down gates stand at the back of the lot facing 60th Lane.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Bavarian-born carpenter August Bauer, an early Ridgewood row-house builder, develops 60-55 to 60-95 71st Avenue
August Bauer, a trained carpenter born in Bavaria in 1860, emigrated in 1882 and moved to Ridgewood in 1893. Up to about 1900 he put up several hundred houses, first frame rows and then some of the area's earliest brick ones. In 1908 he put up the row from 60-55 to 60-95 71st Avenue, all designed by Louis Berger and similar to Paul Stier's work. Bauer lived in Bushwick, belonged to the Ridgewood Democratic Club and the Ridgewood Board of Trade, and in 1910 joined Stier in Bauer & Stier, Inc.
“Bauer built the row at 60-55 to 60-95 71st Avenue (1908) and 60-94 and 60-96 70th Avenue (1908)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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