60-85 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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1909
Paul Stier builds the two-family house at 60-85 68th Avenue
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60-85 68th Avenue, on Block 3532, Lot 34, dates from about 1909 and was filed under new-building application 1918 of that year. Its original owner was Paul Stier, and Louis Berger & Company designed it as a two-family house of brick, stone and metal, two stories high over a basement, in the Renaissance Revival style.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
60-85 68th Avenue pairs a rounded bay with a pedimented stone door hood
The front of 60-85 68th Avenue has a full-height curved bay, a stone water table with stone lintels and sills, and corbelled brick under the windows. A metal cornice on brackets with a festoon frieze runs along the top. Over the years the house received a single replacement door in a wood surround, brick infill above the basement door, iron railings on the stoop walls and refaced stoop and sills.
“…replacement single door with wood surround; light fixture next to main door and above basement door; brick infill above basement door…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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