60-62 68th 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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1909
Builder Paul Stier completes a two-family house with Louis Berger & Company as architects
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This Renaissance Revival house, filed under new-building permit 1920 of 1909, was built for Paul Stier from plans by Louis Berger & Company. Landmarks surveyors noted original double wood-and-glass doors and wood one-over-one sash windows set in molded wooden frames. Later changes include an aluminum awning over the entrance, storm windows and some repointing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Paul Stier and August Bauer form Bauer & Stier, Inc., with architect Louis Berger as an officer
A year after this house went up, its builder Paul Stier joined fellow Ridgewood builder August Bauer to create Bauer & Stier, Inc. Louis Berger, whose firm designed or is credited with all of Stier's buildings, was both the company's in-house architect and its secretary-treasurer. Berger's office drew plans for hundreds of houses holding two to six families, working for most of the neighborhood's builders.
“…when Paul Stier and another local builder, August Bauer, formed Bauer & Stier, Inc., Berger was not only its resident architect…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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