60-59 71st Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1908
August Bauer builds a three-story flats building with curved bays at 60-59 71st Avenue
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Builder August Bauer put up this flats building in 1908 under permit NB 2907-1908, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. Rising three stories over a basement, its Renaissance Revival front has four bays, three of them curved, above a brownstone water table, and is capped by a pressed-metal cornice hung with swags. Later changes include a flagpole and an air conditioner set through the first-story wall.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Bavarian-born carpenter August Bauer adds this house to his 71st Avenue row
August Bauer, who built this house, was born in Bavaria in 1860, trained as a carpenter, came to America in 1882 and moved to Ridgewood in 1893. He became one of the area's earliest row-house developers. In 1908 he built the row running from 60-55 to 60-95 71st Avenue, which includes this building, to designs by Louis Berger.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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