60-56 69th 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, the architect of this house, opens his own firm in Bushwick
Louis Berger & Company designed or is credited with all of Paul Stier's buildings in the district, this house among them. Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America as a boy in 1880, studied architecture at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own office in Bushwick in 1895. He specialized in tenement design and the laws governing it, and from 1895 to 1930 he was architect of record for more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings. In 1910 he became resident architect and secretary-treasurer of Bauer & Stier, Inc.
“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
Paul Stier builds 60-56 69th Avenue in a row of 23 curved-bay houses
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This two-family house went up around 1909 under new-building permit 2622 of that year, built by Paul Stier to plans by Louis Berger & Company. It is the first of 23 two-family row houses running from 60-56 to 60-98 69th Avenue. When the Landmarks Commission surveyed it, the house still kept its original metal areaway fence and gate, along with wood brickmold around all of its windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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