60-69 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
August Bauer builds a three-story flats building here, designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Builder August Bauer put up this three-story flats building with a basement in 1908 under permit NB 2907-1908, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. The brick-and-stone front has four bays, three of them in a curved projection, over a brownstone water table, topped by a pressed-metal cornice with swags. It keeps its original stoop and front door, and the areaway still has its original cast-iron posts and wrought-iron fence.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
August Bauer, a Bavarian-born carpenter turned builder, develops the building
The building is one of a 1908 row put up by August Bauer, among the earliest developers of row houses around Ridgewood. Born in Bavaria in 1860, Bauer trained as a carpenter, emigrated in 1882 and moved to Ridgewood in 1893, and by the turn of the century he had built several hundred houses, many of them wood-frame rows and later some of the area's first brick rows. He lived in nearby Bushwick and belonged to local groups including the Ridgewood Board of Trade, the Wyckoff Heights Taxpayers Association and the Ridgewood Democratic Club.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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