60-63 69th 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
Paul Stier builds 60-63 69th Avenue as a two-family house designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Builder Paul Stier filed new-building permit 1769 in 1908 for this two-story Renaissance Revival house, drawn by the firm of Louis Berger & Company. It belongs to a run of 23 buildings from 60-55 to 60-99 on the street, 22 of them two-family row houses and one a flats building. Its brick front swells into a full-height curved bay under a cornice with swags, consoles and egg-and-dart molding, and a historic wooden balcony survives on the back.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Paul Stier, Ridgewood's busiest builder, puts up this house during his peak years of 1907 to 1909
Stier was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874, came to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and trained as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before settling in the Ridgewood area in 1902. He bought much of the old Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue in 1906. Between 1907 and 1909 he raised 392 of the 481 buildings he eventually built in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, this house among them.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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