Covenant Lutheran Church Parsonage

68-59 60th Lane | Ridgewood | built 1915

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

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1914
The English Lutheran Missionary Society builds a Gothic Revival parsonage for Covenant Lutheran Church
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Built in 1914-15 under permit NB 1962-1914, this three-story Gothic Revival brick parsonage over a basement was designed by Carl L. Otto for the English Lutheran Missionary Society. Its features include English cross-bond brickwork, label moldings, a gable roof and a decorative brick cross set into the gable. The commission found the stoop original and a historic door still at the basement entrance.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
Carl L. Otto, trained at Pratt, Columbia and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, designs this parsonage
Carl L. Otto (1877-1972) designed this parsonage and the Covenant Lutheran Church in 1914-15. Born in New York to German immigrants, he graduated from Pratt Institute and Columbia University and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He designed banks, churches and office buildings, mostly in Brooklyn; his most important work, with Rudolphe Daus, was the sanctuary of the Church of Notre Dame on Morningside Drive in Manhattan. He kept a Manhattan office until at least 1940 and in later years made his home in West Hempstead, Long Island, in a restored house dating from the 18th century.
“Carl L. Otto (1877-1972) 60-52 Catalpa Avenue and 68-59 60th Lane [Covenant Lutheran Church and Parsonage (1914-15)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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