60-96 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
August Bauer builds 60-96 as a twin of his house next door
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August Bauer filed permit NB 2924-1908 for this two-family house, designed like 60-94 by Louis Berger & Company. Two stories on a basement, it has four bays, three of them set in a curved projection, plus a rough-faced brownstone stoop, rough-faced brick spandrel panels and a pressed-metal cornice with swags. Out back, the stuccoed rear wall still carries an old three-story wooden porch with spindle railings and columns.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Bauer and Stier join forces as Bauer & Stier, with Louis Berger as secretary-treasurer
Two years after building this house, August Bauer teamed up with Paul Stier, who built the corner building next door at 60-98, to form Bauer & Stier, Inc. Louis Berger, whose firm had designed this house, served the new company both as its resident architect and as secretary-treasurer. From 1910 on, Stier's developments were carried out in partnership with Bauer.
“…when Paul Stier and another local builder, August Bauer, formed Bauer & Stier, Inc., Berger was not only its resident architect…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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