60-81 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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1909
Paul Stier builds 60-81 68th Avenue as a two-family house
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Around 1909 Paul Stier, the original owner, put up 60-81 68th Avenue, a two-family house on Block 3532, Lot 36, filed under new-building application 1918 of that year. Louis Berger & Company drew the plans. The house stands two stories over a basement and is built of brick and stone with metal trim in the Renaissance Revival manner.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Louis Berger & Company give 60-81 68th Avenue a rounded bay and a festooned cornice
The firm's design for 60-81 68th Avenue centers on a curved bay rising the full height of the front. Stone forms the water table, lintels and running sills, while panels and bands of contrasting brick fill the walls between windows. A projecting metal cornice on brackets carries a frieze of festoons, and a carved stone pediment crowns the hood over the door at the top of a masonry stoop.
“Full-height rounded bay; stone water table, lintels and continuous sills ... projecting metal cornice on brackets with frieze with festoons…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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