69-11 Forest 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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1911
Stephen Woris builds a two-family house with three curved bays
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Stephen Woris commissioned this two-story two-family house and its twin at 69-13 Forest Avenue in 1911 under a single building application (NB 688-1911). The front is four bays wide, three of them curving outward, over a brownstone water table. A bracketed entrance lintel carved with foliage marks the door, and a pressed-metal cornice with scrolled brackets, swags and wreaths runs across the top.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Brewer's son Louis Allmendinger designs the house
The architect, Louis Allmendinger (1878-1937), was born in Brooklyn to a German-immigrant beer brewer and studied at the Cooper Union. In 1911 he designed this house and its twin at 69-13, along with the row at 917 to 939 Onderdonk Avenue and a house at 58-18 69th Avenue. His later work included the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Brooklyn and, with partner M. Allen Schlendorf, the Liebmann Brewery.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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