60-77 68th Road

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
Louis Berger & Company designs 60-77 68th Road as a rounded-bay house for Paul Stier
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Builder Paul Stier was the original owner of this three-story, two-family brick house, built around 1909 (new-building permit 1924-1909) to designs by Louis Berger & Company. The Renaissance Revival front swells into a rounded bay rising the full height of the house. A stone hood on carved brackets, crowned by a triangular pediment, shelters the door, and a projecting metal cornice on brackets, with festoons on its frieze, tops the facade.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier, the district's busiest builder, puts up this house during his peak years
Paul Stier, the original owner of 60-77, was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America alone in 1891, training as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo. He moved to Ridgewood in 1902 and became its largest developer, eventually putting up about half of the row houses in what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District. His busiest years were 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of his 481 buildings there.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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