60-60 71st Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1911
A brick and brownstone apartment house rises at 60-60 71st Avenue around 1911
This three-story apartment building over a basement went up around 1911; its first owner has not been identified. The Landmarks Preservation Commission credits it to the architects Koch & Wagner because it so closely matches their building at 60-56 71st Avenue. Its front has a brownstone stoop, rusticated brick at the first story, a doorway lintel with a leafy frieze on foliated brackets, keystoned lintels at the second story and brick laid to look like corner quoins.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Architects Arthur Koch and Charles Wagner design one of their first works on this block
The row at 60-56 to 60-62 71st Avenue, which includes this house, is among the earliest works of Koch & Wagner, a partnership that Arthur R. Koch and Charles C. Wagner started in 1910. Both were Brooklyn natives and Pratt Institute graduates, and each took a turn heading the American Institute of Architects' Brooklyn chapter. Before 1910, Wagner had spent several years working on designs for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The firm lasted until 1951, when Wagner retired to Florida.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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