60-81 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
Berger's firm draws a blonde-brick bay-front house on the north side of Putnam Avenue
Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-story Renaissance Revival row house, filed as NB 1727-1911 with Louis Berger & Company as architect. Its light brick front has a curved bay, brick spandrel panels and a modillioned cornice that the Commission rated historic. Since then the stoop and door have been replaced, an aluminum awning added over the entrance and brick-and-concrete fencing put up around the areaway.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Louis Berger, architect of thousands of Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, designs this house
Berger was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, emigrated as a child in 1880 and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. After studying at Pratt Institute and apprenticing with Carrere & Hastings, he opened his own Bushwick office in 1895. His firm was architect of record for more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick through 1930, and he also served as secretary-treasurer of Bauer & Stier, Inc. and president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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