Gottscheer Hall

657 Fairview Avenue | also 655 Fairview Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1930

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1924

    Immigrants from Gottschee found Gottscheer Hall, a tavern and dance hall in Ridgewood

    Gottschee was a German-speaking enclave in Austria-Hungary, in what is now Slovenia, and many of its people came to New York in the late 1800s. They set up the hall in 1924, and after World War II a second wave of stateless Gottscheers followed them to it. Atlas Obscura describes portraits of Miss Gottschee pageant winners in the foyer and Rod & Gun Club shooting trophies in the taproom.

    Source: atlasobscura.com

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