60-67 68th Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1909
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1909
This house belongs to Paul Stier's 1909 row, an example of his most common deep-bay design
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The Central Ridgewood designation report singles out the 1909 row at 60-43 to 60-89 68th Avenue, which takes in this house, as an example of the third and most widespread kind of Stier house. Developer Paul Stier put up more than 200 of them from 1908 to 1912, with pronounced curved bays and rough-faced brownstone stoops enclosed by solid brownstone walls. His architect, Louis Berger, kept such long rows from looking uniform by changing the brick colors and ornament from one row to the next.
“The third, and most most common type of Stier house, of which over 200 were built between 1908 and 1912, have more pronounced bay projections…”
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