66-67 Forest Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1914

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

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1914
Joseph Meyerrose builds a semi-attached house on Forest Avenue
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Joseph Meyerrose filed plans in 1914 (NB 3094-1914) for this two-story house and its twin at 66-69. Louis Berger & Company designed it in the Renaissance Revival style. The same firm and owner produced the two store-and-apartment buildings at 66-63 and 66-65 that complete the short row.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
A curved bay and a shared stone stoop mark the house's front
The brick front swells into a curved projecting bay and shares a stone stoop with its neighbor at 66-69. A bracketed stone hood sits over the door, a dogtooth brick course runs below the cornice, and a broad decorated frieze carries a bracketed, dentiled cornice. The cast-iron areaway fence, newel posts and gate survive; by the 2014 historic district report the door and windows had been replaced and the stone painted.
“Curved projecting bay; shared historic stone stoop; wide stone band runs width of the facade between basement and first floor…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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