60-59 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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1895
Louis Berger, architect of 60-59 68th Road, opens his own firm in Bushwick
Berger was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, emigrated as a young child in 1880, and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. He trained at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before founding his office in 1895, specializing in tenement design and the laws that governed it. By 1930 he had been architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick, and he served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier builds 60-59 68th Road with a full-height rounded bay, designed by Louis Berger & Company
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The house was filed as NB 1924-1909, part of the run of Stier houses on the north side of the street from 60-51 to 60-89. It rises three stories in brick, stone and metal, with a rounded bay running the full height, contrasting brick panels and bands, and a stone door hood on brackets under a carved triangular pediment. By the 2014 designation report it had aluminum awnings over both doors, a replacement main door with sidelights and transom, and a mailbox set into the stoop wall.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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