60-90 68th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1909
Paul Stier puts up this rounded-bay two-family house, which keeps its original double doors
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Built around 1909 under permit NB 1920-1909 for Paul Stier, this Renaissance Revival two-family house was designed by Louis Berger & Company and stands two stories over a basement. Its stone door hood rests on stone brackets beneath a triangular pediment with carved decoration. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it, the original double doors of wood and glass and the original cornice were still in place, while an aluminum awning had been added over the entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
The house's architect, Louis Berger, becomes secretary-treasurer of the new Bauer & Stier, Inc.
Louis Berger, whose firm designed this house, was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, studied architecture at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Carrere & Hastings before opening his own office in Bushwick in 1895. He specialized in tenement houses and the laws governing them, and is credited with more than 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick. When Paul Stier and August Bauer formed Bauer & Stier, Inc. in 1910, Berger served as both its architect and its secretary-treasurer.
“In 1910, when Paul Stier and another local builder, August Bauer, formed Bauer & Stier, Inc., Berger was not only its resident architect…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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