60-97 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
Paul Stier builds 60-97 with wood brick molds framing its basement windows
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Paul Stier built this Renaissance Revival two-family house about 1908 under permit NB 2879-1908, from Louis Berger & Company's plans. Besides the row's full-height curved bay and pedimented door hood, the commission noted wood brick molds framing the basement windows, where historic sash remained, though upper windows had been replaced. Later owners added awnings, a door surround at the basement entrance and a metal balcony on the rear.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Masons James Reilly and John MacDonald run Paul Stier's crews of about 50 bricklayers
To raise houses like this one, Paul Stier brought in two local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, to oversee about 50 bricklayers, many of them German and Italian immigrants, who laid the face brick and set the stone trim. Ridgewood's builders used Kreischer brick until World War I, mostly a light-colored iron-spot brick laid with tight, flush joints; the masons used wedge-shaped Kreischer fire brick to get the tight brickwork of the curved bays.
“Paul Stier hired a pair of local masons, James Reilly and John MacDonald, to supervise a staff of 50 or so bricklayers…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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