60-64 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
Louis Berger & Company designs a rounded-bay house for Paul Stier on 68th Avenue
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Filed under new-building permit 1920 of 1909, this two-family house was built for Paul Stier from Louis Berger & Company's plans. The brick, stone and metal front combines a full-height rounded bay, a water table and continuous sills of stone, and a projecting metal cornice on brackets decorated with festoons. Its original double wood-and-glass doors remained when the house was surveyed, behind an aluminum awning added later.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1939
The WPA Guide to New York City calls the Central Ridgewood area old-fashioned and respectable
In 1939 the Works Progress Administration's New York City Guide described the area as "old-fashioned and respectable." Census records gathered for the landmarks report show that by 1940 its residents still had mostly German and northern European surnames and worked largely blue-collar or low-level professional jobs. Many children of the first residents set up households nearby, sometimes inheriting and staying in their parents' houses.
“In 1939, the WPA Guide called the area “old-fashioned and respectable.”…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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