60-64 69th 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
Paul Stier builds 60-64 69th Avenue as one of a second row of 23 two-family houses
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A year after his 1908 row at 60-55 to 60-99, Paul Stier filed permit 2622 of 1909 for this two-family house and its neighbors, 23 row houses running from 60-56 to 60-98 69th Avenue. Louis Berger & Company designed it in the Renaissance Revival style: two stories over a basement, a curved bay rising the full height, and a pedimented stone hood over the door. Its original metal fence and gate and basement window grilles are still in place.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Architect Louis Berger, designer of this house, filed plans for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick
Berger, whose firm designed this house in 1909, was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875 and came to America as a boy in 1880. He studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own Bushwick office in 1895, specializing in tenement houses and the laws that governed them. When Stier and fellow builder August Bauer formed Bauer & Stier, Inc. in 1910, Berger became both its house architect and its secretary-treasurer, and he also served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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