60-71 69th 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
Paul Stier puts up a two-family row house drawn by Louis Berger & Company
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Built around 1908 under new-building permit 1769-1908, this two-story house on a basement had Paul Stier as its original owner and Louis Berger & Company as architect. It belongs to a run of 23 buildings at 60-55 to 60-99 69th Avenue: 22 two-family row houses and a single flats building. The Renaissance Revival front has a full-height curved bay and a bracketed, pedimented stone door hood, and landmarks surveyors still found a historic front door and the original metal areaway fence and gate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Paul Stier, Ridgewood's biggest single developer, builds this house during his busiest years
Paul Stier, the house's original owner, was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America by himself in 1891, first working as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo. He settled in the Ridgewood area in 1902 and in 1906 bought a large part of the former Debevoise farm. He went on to erect about half of the district's row houses, 392 of his 481 buildings there going up between 1907 and 1909. A small street in the district, Stier Place, carries his name.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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