60-87 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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1909
Paul Stier builds 60-87 68th Avenue, a two-family house by Louis Berger
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Around 1909 Paul Stier, the original owner, erected 60-87 68th Avenue on Block 3532, Lot 33, under new-building application 1918 of that year. Louis Berger & Company were the architects. It is a two-family house, two stories over a basement, faced in brick with stone and metal details in the Renaissance Revival style, its designed facade facing south.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
60-87 68th Avenue gets a rounded bay and a festooned metal cornice
Louis Berger & Company designed 60-87 68th Avenue with a curved bay running the full height of the front, contrasting brick spandrels and bands, and a bracketed metal cornice with a festoon frieze. A stone hood with a carved pediment shelters the door. A wooden replacement door with side panels and transom, an aluminum awning, stone stoop treads and painted stoop, water table and sills came later.
“Aluminum awning over main entrance; replacement wooden door with two side panels and transom; light fixture near door…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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