60-96A 69th Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1909

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 60-96A 69th Avenue as one of 23 two-family row houses
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60-96A 69th Avenue was filed in 1909 (NB 2622-1909) as a two-family house for the builder Paul Stier, designed by Louis Berger & Company. It is one of 23 matching row houses from 60-56 to 60-98 69th Avenue, two stories on a basement, with a full-height curved bay and a pedimented stone hood on brackets over the door. The original front door, stoop and stoop vent grille remain.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
Paul Stier, who built about half of the district's row houses, puts up 60-96A 69th Avenue
Paul Stier, the house's builder, was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874 and came to America alone as a teenager in 1891, learning masonry in Buffalo before moving to Ridgewood in 1902. In 1906 he bought a large piece of the old Debevoise farm north of Myrtle Avenue. Of the 481 buildings he eventually erected in what became the historic district, 392 went up between 1907 and 1909. A small street in the district is called Stier Place.
“His most active years were from 1907 to 1909, when he built 392 of the 481 buildings that he eventually developed within the historic district…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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