69-13 Forest Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1911

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1911
Stephen Woris builds 69-13 Forest Avenue as a bow-fronted two-family house designed by Louis Allmendinger
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Stephen Woris was the original owner of this two-family house, built in 1911 under New Building permit 688-1911 to plans by architect Louis Allmendinger. The two-story Renaissance Revival front has four bays, three of them curved, set on a brownstone water table, with bands of limestone sills and lintels and a pressed-metal cornice on brackets, ornamented with wreaths and swags. The stoop keeps its original wrought-iron railings and cast-iron newels, although the rough brownstone stoop has since been coated in cement stucco.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Brooklyn architect Louis Allmendinger, son of a German brewer, designs the house at 69-13 Forest Avenue
Louis Allmendinger (1878-1937), whose German-born father brewed beer, studied at the Cooper Union and worked out of Bushwick, Brooklyn. In 1911 he designed 69-11 and 69-13 Forest Avenue, along with the row at 917 to 939 Onderdonk Avenue and the house at 58-18 69th Avenue. He went on to design Brooklyn's Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, built 1916-21, and from 1926 he practiced with M. Allen Schlendorf, designing breweries, a coffee plant and the J. Kurtz & Sons store in Queens.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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