60-80 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1911
Louis Berger & Company designs a blonde-brick row house here for builder Paul Stier
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Filed as new building application NB 1726-1911, this two-story Renaissance Revival house on a basement was drawn by Louis Berger & Company for Paul Stier. Its pale brick front swells into a curved bay, and the doorway sits under a bracketed stone hood. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it, the stoop and a wood-and-glass double door looked possibly original, while the railings and fencing had been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Paul Stier, Ridgewood's largest single developer, adds this house to his rows
Stier was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America alone as a teenager in 1891, learning masonry as an apprentice in Buffalo. He settled in the Ridgewood area in 1902 and became the neighborhood's largest single developer. Within what is now the Central Ridgewood Historic District he put up 481 buildings, roughly half its row houses, and a small street in the district carries the name Stier Place.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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