60-94 70th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1908

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

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1908
Bavarian-born builder August Bauer puts up the two-family house at 60-94 70th Avenue
Developer August Bauer built this house and its neighbor at 60-96 in 1908, along with the 71st Avenue row from 60-55 to 60-95, all from plans by Louis Berger & Company. Bauer, born in Bavaria in 1860, trained as a carpenter, reached America in 1882 and made Ridgewood his home in 1893; over the following years he put up several hundred houses, first frame rows and later some of the area's first brick ones. He lived in Bushwick and belonged to the Ridgewood Democratic Club and the Ridgewood Board of Trade.
“Bauer built the row at 60-55 to 60-95 71st Avenue (1908) and 60-94 and 60-96 70th Avenue (1908)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Berger gives Bauer's house three curved bays and a swagged metal cornice
Filed as NB 2906-1908, the Renaissance Revival house is four bays wide, with three of them bowed out in curved bays above a rough-faced brownstone stoop. A bracketed cornice of pressed metal, trimmed with swags and egg-and-dart molding, crowns the brick front. The commission's survey recorded the original front door and historic wood brick molds at the basement, and on the rear a historic three-story wooden porch with columns and spindle railings.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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