60-93 Putnam Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1911
Louis Berger & Company designs 60-93 Putnam Avenue as a blonde-brick row house for Paul Stier
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Builder Paul Stier put up this two-story house on a raised basement around 1911 under New Building permit 1727 of that year, with Louis Berger & Company as architect. The Renaissance Revival front is blonde brick with a curved projecting bay, brick spandrel panels under the windows, a bracketed stone hood over the door and a modillioned cornice above a wide decorated frieze.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Paul Stier, a German-born mason, builds this house as Ridgewood's largest developer
Stier was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America alone as a teenager in 1891, apprenticing to a mason while living with relatives in Buffalo. After moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902 he turned out brick row houses in great numbers and became the neighborhood's largest single developer, one of the biggest building operators in the whole city; this house on Putnam Avenue is one of his.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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