66-51 60th Place

also 66-51 Prospect Avenue | Ridgewood | built 1911

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

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1886
Anton Kluepfel, the German baker and sailor who built this row, arrives in America as a teenager
Kluepfel, born in Steinfeld, Germany, in 1870, emigrated in 1886 and worked as a baker and then a sailor before turning builder by 1900. He went on to put up several rows in what became the Central Ridgewood Historic District, sometimes with his brother George. The district's Kleupfel Court may carry his family's name, misspelled.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Builder Anton Kluepfel puts up 66-51 60th Place to plans by Louis Berger & Company
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this building to about 1911, under new-building permit 104 of that year, with Anton Kluepfel as original owner and Louis Berger & Company as architects. It is a Renaissance Revival apartment building of brick and stone, three stories over a basement, with fluted stone pilasters and a carved, bracketed hood at its central doorway. The commission rated its stone stoop as possibly historic.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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