60-85 70th 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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1908
Paul Stier puts up 60-85 70th Avenue as a two-family house in a 22-building row
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Builder Paul Stier was the original owner of this brick house of two stories over a basement, filed with the Buildings Department as NB 2879 of 1908 and drawn by Louis Berger & Company. It belongs to a run of 22 buildings from 60-57 to 60-99 70th Avenue: 21 two-family row houses plus a single flats building. The house still has its iron stoop vent grille, while the stoop railings and front fence are later replacements.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Landmarks report names this row as an example of Stier's most common house type
The 2014 Central Ridgewood Historic District report singles out 60-57 to 60-99 70th Avenue, the row that includes this house, as an example of the third and most common model Louis Berger & Company drew for Paul Stier. Over 200 were built from 1908 to 1912, two or three stories tall, with deeper bay projections than Stier's earlier houses and rough-faced brownstone stoops enclosed by solid brownstone walls. Berger varied the brick colors and ornament from row to row.
“The third, and most most common type of Stier house, of which over 200 were built between 1908 and 1912, have more pronounced bay projections.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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