66-69 Forest Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1920

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

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1900
Joseph Meyerrose begins turning his family's farm into rows of brick houses
Joseph Meyerrose, born in 1859, kept working the farm his Bremen-born father Joachim had assembled in Ridgewood, then began selling parts of it to local builders around the turn of the century. He later developed more of the land himself, starting with a house at 66-73 Forest Avenue and then three small rows in 1913 and 1914, including 66-63 to 66-69 Forest Avenue. Louis Berger & Company designed all of them.
“Later, he built three small rows of buildings at 66-63 to 66-69 Forest (1914)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
Joseph Meyerrose builds the second house of a semi-attached pair
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This two-story brick house went up around 1914 for Joseph Meyerrose under the same building application as 66-67 Forest Avenue, its semi-attached partner, with Louis Berger & Company as architect. The pair share a stone stoop, and this house shares a driveway with its neighbor at 66-73. A one-story brick garage with a metal door stands at the back of the lot.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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