66-12 Stier Place
Ridgewood | built 1911
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1910
Paul Stier and August Bauer form Bauer & Stier, Inc., the firm behind this row
In 1910 Paul Stier joined fellow Ridgewood builder August Bauer to found Bauer & Stier, Inc., and from then on Stier's projects were partnerships with Bauer, including the houses of Stier Place begun the next year. Their architect, Louis Berger, was not only the company's in-house designer but also its secretary-treasurer.
“In 1910, when Paul Stier and another local builder, August Bauer, formed Bauer & Stier, Inc., Berger was not only its resident architect, but also the secretary-treasurer…”
- 1911
Louis Berger & Company designs 66-12 Stier Place for builder Paul Stier
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This two-story Renaissance Revival row house on a raised basement went up around 1911 for Paul Stier, filed under New Building permit 1724 together with its neighbors at 66-14 and 66-16 Stier Place. Louis Berger & Company gave it a curved projecting bay, brick spandrel panels below the windows, flat second-floor lintels and a wide decorated frieze under a bracketed cornice with dentils.
- 2014
The house keeps its historic wood-and-glass double front door, landmarks surveyors note
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's December 9, 2014 designation of Central Ridgewood described the wood-and-glass double-leaf door of 66-12 Stier Place as historic. The survey also noted that the stoop had been painted, the windows replaced and modern metal fencing added around the areaway.
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