60-58 70th 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 opens the architecture firm that designs Stier's Ridgewood houses
Louis Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America in 1880 and settled in Ridgewood in 1892. After studying at Pratt Institute and apprenticing with Carrere & Hastings, he set up his own firm in Bushwick in 1895, specializing in tenement houses and the laws governing them. He was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick by 1930, became secretary-treasurer of Bauer & Stier, Inc. in 1910, and served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“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 a four-bay house with three curved bays on 70th Avenue
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Paul Stier built this two-story two-family house in 1909 under permit NB 3613-1909, the same permit as its neighbor at 60-60, with Louis Berger & Company as architects in the Renaissance Revival style. Its brick and stone front is four bays wide, with three of the bays set in curved projections and rough-faced brick ornament.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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