60-57 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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1902
Paul Stier, the German-born mason who built this house, starts building rows in Ridgewood
Paul Stier was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America by himself as a teenager in 1891, learning masonry as an apprentice while living with relatives in Buffalo. He settled in the Ridgewood area in 1902 and turned out brick row houses in large numbers, becoming the neighborhood's largest developer. Within today's historic district he put up 481 buildings, 392 of them between 1907 and 1909, and nearby Stier Place carries his name.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier builds a two-family brick house with a rounded bay, to plans by Louis Berger & Company
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Builder Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-story house on a raised basement, filed under new-building permit 1918 of 1909 and drawn up by Louis Berger & Company. The Renaissance Revival front has a full-height rounded bay, a stone door hood on stone brackets topped by a carved triangular pediment, and a projecting metal cornice with festoons. When surveyed for the 2014 designation it still had its original double wood-and-glass doors and iron areaway fence and gate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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