60-97 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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1908
60-97 69th Avenue goes up as one of Stier's deep-bay row houses
Built around 1908 by Paul Stier to plans by Louis Berger & Company, this house belongs to the third and most common of Stier's house types, of which more than 200 were built from 1908 to 1912. These have bolder bay projections than his earlier rows and rise two or three stories over raised or full-height basements, entered by rough-faced brownstone stoops with solid side walls. The report names the 60-55 to 60-99 69th Avenue row as an example.
“The third, and most most common type of Stier house, of which over 200 were built between 1908 and 1912, have more pronounced bay projections.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Ridgewood's streets are renamed, and Foxall Street becomes 69th Avenue
This house was built on Foxall Street, the original name of 69th Avenue. In 1925 the Board of Aldermen renamed most of the streets in the Ridgewood area, part of a numbered street plan that Queens phased in between 1915 and 1926 to end duplicate names left over from the 1898 consolidation of its towns and villages. Other streets in the district changed too: Elm Avenue became Catalpa Avenue and Hughes Street became 68th Avenue, while Fresh Pond Road kept its name.
“…across the borough between 1915 and 1926 ... 69th Avenue (Foxall Street), Catalpa Avenue (Elm Avenue)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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