60-94 69th Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1909
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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 60-94 69th Avenue to a curved-bay design by Louis Berger & Company
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This two-family house was built about 1909 under permit NB 2622-1909 by Paul Stier, its original owner, as one of 23 row houses at 60-56 to 60-98 69th Avenue. Louis Berger & Company's Renaissance Revival design gives it a curved bay rising the full height of the front, incised ornament on a pedimented stone door hood, and an egg-and-dart cornice with consoles and swags.
- 1910
Paul Stier, builder of this house, joins August Bauer to form Bauer & Stier, Inc.
A year after this row went up, Stier and fellow Ridgewood builder August Bauer formed Bauer & Stier, Inc. Louis Berger, whose firm had designed this house, served as the new company's resident architect and also as its secretary-treasurer. From 1910 on, Stier's building projects were carried out in partnership with Bauer.
“In 1910, when Paul Stier and another local builder, August Bauer, formed Bauer & Stier, Inc., Berger was not only its resident architect…”
- 2014
Landmarks report finds a historic wood balcony on the rear of 60-94
Describing the house in 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission noted that the back wall had been parged but kept its curved bay and a historic wood balcony. On the front, the stoop vent grille had been removed, a mailbox and light had been added at the basement entrance, and the door and windows were replacements. The original cornice remained, and the areaway had hatch doors.
“Facade Notes: Parged brick facade; curved bay; historic wood balcony; satellite dish on roof…”
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