60-92 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 builds this Renaissance Revival two-family house with a pedimented door hood
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This two-story house over a basement was filed under permit NB 1920-1909 and completed around 1909 for builder Paul Stier, with plans by Louis Berger & Company. It has a full-height rounded bay, corbelled brick beneath the windows and a pedimented stone door hood on brackets. The commission's survey recorded its original double wood-and-glass doors and original cornice, and noted a security camera by the entrance and a parged side wall rising above a neighboring garage.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier, the German immigrant who built this house, ends his busiest three years in Ridgewood
Paul Stier, the house's original owner, was born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America alone as a teenager in 1891, training as a mason's apprentice in Buffalo before moving to Ridgewood in 1902. He built about half the row houses in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, and 392 of his 481 buildings there went up between 1907 and 1909. A small street in the district, Stier Place, carries his name.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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