60-72 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1909

    Louis Berger & Company designs this curved-bay house for builder Paul Stier

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    This two-family house went up around 1909 under permit 2622-1909, one of 23 two-family row houses running from 60-56 to 60-98 69th Avenue. It was first owned by Paul Stier. The brick, stone and iron facade has a full-height curved bay, rough-faced brick panels and a cornice trimmed with egg-and-dart moldings, consoles and swags. Later owners added granite to the stoop steps, a security camera at a first-story window, awnings over both entrances and a satellite dish on the roof.

    “Alterations: Non-historic stoop railings; granite on stoop steps ... security camera at first story center window; ... satellite dish on roof…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1909

    Louis Berger, architect of over 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, plans the row

    The house's architect, Louis Berger, was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, came to America as a young child in 1880, and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. He trained at Pratt Institute and under Carrere & Hastings, then in 1895 opened his own Bushwick firm, specializing in tenement houses and the laws that governed them. Between 1895 and 1930 he was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick, and he served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.

    “Overall, Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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