60-74 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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 builds a two-family house that keeps its iron stoop vent grille
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This house was built around 1909 under permit 2622-1909 for Paul Stier, with Louis Berger & Company as architects, and forms part of the 23-house row at 60-56 to 60-98 69th Avenue. Its brick front, with a full-height curved bay and a bracketed stone door hood, still has a decorative iron stoop vent grille, original basement security grilles and the original metal areaway fence and gate. Later additions include two mailboxes by the basement door and a house-number plaque beside the main entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Paul Stier and August Bauer form Bauer & Stier, Inc., with the house's architect as an officer
A year after this house went up, its builder Paul Stier joined another local builder, August Bauer, to form Bauer & Stier, Inc. Louis Berger, whose firm designed the houses on this block, became the new company's resident architect and also its secretary-treasurer. From then on, Stier's developments were carried out in partnership with Bauer.
“In 1910, when Paul Stier and another local builder, August Bauer, formed Bauer & Stier, Inc., Berger was not only its resident architect, but also the secretary-treasurer…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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