60-65 71st 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
A curved-bay flats building by Louis Berger & Company rises at 60-65 71st Avenue
Louis Berger & Company designed this flats building for August Bauer, who built it in 1908 under permit NB 2907-1908. It is three stories high over a basement, with three curved bays among its four, a molded entrance lintel, rough-faced brick banding and a bracketed cornice of pressed metal. Its front was later repointed, and it kept its original door and gained a bracketed flower basket.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Louis Berger styles August Bauer's 71st Avenue row after Paul Stier's houses
In 1908 August Bauer developed the houses from 60-55 through 60-95 71st Avenue, this one among them, along with 60-94 and 60-96 70th Avenue the same year. Louis Berger designed all of them to look like the houses of the builder Paul Stier. Bauer had settled in Ridgewood in 1893 and was among the first in the area to build rows of houses.
“Bauer built the row at 60-55 to 60-95 71st Avenue (1908) and 60-94 and 60-96 70th Avenue (1908), all designed by Berger…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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