60-95 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
60-95 Putnam Avenue is built for Paul Stier with a curved bay and a stone door hood
Built about 1911 for Paul Stier under the same 1911 permit (NB 1727) as its Putnam Avenue neighbors, this two-story Renaissance Revival house was drawn by Louis Berger & Company. It has a curved projecting bay, a bracketed stone hood at the entrance and rough-cut stone bands tying the lintels to the sills. Its east side wall, partly visible, is parged brick with stone-trimmed windows on the second floor.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Architect Louis Berger, trained at Pratt and Carrere & Hastings, draws this house's plans
Louis Berger, born in Rheinpfalz, Germany, in 1875, emigrated as a child in 1880 and made Ridgewood his home from 1892. After architecture classes at Pratt Institute and an apprenticeship with Carrere & Hastings, he opened his own Bushwick office in 1895. Tenement design was his specialty; from 1895 to 1930 his firm was architect of record on more than 5,000 Ridgewood and Bushwick buildings, and he served as president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects.
“Berger was known to have been the architect of record for over 5,000 buildings in Ridgewood and Bushwick between 1895 and 1930. Born in 1875 in Rheinpfalz…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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