60-71 68th Road
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
Paul Stier's bricklaying crews raise the row house at 60-71 68th Road
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Paul Stier built this three-story two-family house around 1909 to plans by Louis Berger & Company. For his Ridgewood houses Stier hired two local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, who supervised around 50 bricklayers, many of them German and Italian immigrants, setting the face brick and stone trim. Ridgewood's builders used brick from the Kreischer Brick Manufacturing Company on Staten Island, mostly a smooth, light-colored iron-spot brick laid with tight, flush joints.
“Paul Stier hired a pair of local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, to supervise a staff of 50 or so bricklayers…”
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