60-58 68th Road

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 builder of this house, settles in Ridgewood and begins putting up brick rows
Stier was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874 and crossed to America on his own as a teenager in 1891, apprenticing to a mason in Buffalo. After moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902 he built brick row houses in great numbers and became the area's largest developer. Within today's Central Ridgewood Historic District he erected 481 buildings, 392 of them between 1907 and 1909, the stretch in which this house went up. Stier Place, a short street in the district, carries his name.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier builds 60-58 68th Road as a two-family row house to plans by Louis Berger & Company
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Filed under new-building application NB 1922-1909, this two-story brick house on a basement is one of eleven Stier buildings on the south side of the block: ten two-family row houses and a flats building at the 60th Lane corner. Its Renaissance Revival front has a pedimented stone door hood on brackets, panels of rough-faced brick and a cornice with consoles and swags. The 2014 designation report found its stoop, the gate beneath it and the front door all original.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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