70-18 60th Lane

Ridgewood | built 1907

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

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1907
Paul Stier builds a two-family house at 70-18 60th Lane
This two-story brick and stone house went up in 1907 under new-building permit 2414-1907, with Paul Stier as original owner and Louis Berger & Company as architects. Stier, born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1874, had arrived alone as a teenager in 1891, apprenticed as a mason in Buffalo and moved to Ridgewood in 1902. He went on to build about half of the district's row houses; his busiest years were 1907 to 1909, when he put up 392 of the 481 buildings he eventually developed there.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
The house belongs to Stier's early shallow-bay row on 60th Lane
The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites the row from 70-02 to 70-20 60th Lane as a typical example of Stier's first house model: two stories over a raised basement, three bays wide, with two bays set in shallow curved projections. At No. 70-18 the original wrought-iron stoop railings, rough-faced brownstone stoop and a pressed-metal cornice trimmed with swags and egg-and-dart molding survive, though the cast-iron newel posts are gone.
“Typical examples of Stier's shallow bay houses include ... 70-02 to 70-20 60th Lane (1907)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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