60-79 71st 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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1893
Bavarian-born carpenter August Bauer settles in Ridgewood, where he later builds this row
Bauer, born in Bavaria in 1860, trained as a carpenter, emigrated in 1882 and made Ridgewood his base from 1893. Several hundred houses there were his work around the turn of the century, first wood-frame rows and later some of the area's earliest brick ones, mostly to Louis Berger & Company's designs. In 1908 he built the row running from 60-55 to 60-95 71st Avenue, which includes this building. He lived in neighboring Bushwick.
“Bauer built the row at 60-55 to 60-95 71st Avenue (1908) and 60-94 and 60-96 70th Avenue (1908), all designed by Berger…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
August Bauer builds 60-79 71st Avenue as a three-story flats building designed by Louis Berger & Company
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Filed under new-building application 2907 of 1908, this flats building on Block 3537, Lot 35 was put up for builder August Bauer to plans by Louis Berger & Company. Its Renaissance Revival brick-and-stone front rises three stories over a basement and is four bays wide, three of them curved, with bands of rough-faced brick and a pressed-metal cornice trimmed with swags. By the time of the Landmarks Preservation Commission survey the stoop and front door had both been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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