60-95 69th 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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1906
Paul Stier, a former mason's apprentice from Mecklenberg, buys the old Debevoise farm land where this row will stand
In 1906 Paul Stier acquired much of the former Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue, between today's 60th Street and Fresh Pond Road, and started building on it in earnest in 1907. Born in Mecklenberg, Germany, in 1874, Stier crossed to America alone as a teenager in 1891 and apprenticed to a mason in Buffalo before moving to the Ridgewood area in 1902. He went on to build about half of the row houses in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Paul Stier builds 60-95 69th Avenue in a 23-building row of curved-bay houses
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This two-family house was filed under new building permit NB 1769-1908, with plans by Louis Berger & Company for Paul Stier, its builder and first owner. It belongs to a run of 23 buildings at 60-55 to 60-99 69th Avenue: 22 two-family row houses and a flats building on the corner. Its Renaissance Revival front has a curved bay rising the full height, a bracketed stone door hood with a triangular pediment, and a cornice decorated with egg-and-dart, consoles and swags.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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