60-89 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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1909
Paul Stier builds this two-family house to Louis Berger & Company's design
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Ridgewood developer Paul Stier was the original owner of this two-story house with a basement, filed under new-building permit NB 1918-1909 and dated to about 1909. Louis Berger & Company drew the Renaissance Revival design: a full-height rounded bay, contrasting brick spandrel panels and a bracketed metal cornice hung with festoons. The Landmarks Preservation Commission found the cornice and stoop still original, and noted parged brick on the east wall showing above a one-story garage.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
The house ends Stier's 1909 row of pronounced-bay houses at 60-43 to 60-89 68th Avenue
The commission's report names 60-43 to 60-89 68th Avenue, finished in 1909, as an example of the most common Stier house type, of which more than 200 went up between 1908 and 1912. These houses have more pronounced curved bays than Stier's earlier shallow-bay rows and had rough-faced brownstone stoops flanked by solid brownstone side walls. Berger varied the brick colors and ornament from row to row so the near-identical houses would not look uniform.
“Examples include ... 60-43 to 60-89 68th Avenue (1909)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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