862 Woodward Avenue
Ridgewood | built 1912
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1912
Builder Kilian Schurger puts up 862 Woodward Avenue to designs by Louis Berger and Company
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862 Woodward Avenue was built in 1912 under permit NB 2328-12 for Kilian Schurger, with Louis Berger and Company as architect. It stands on its own tax lot next to the row of seven at 864-876 Woodward Avenue, which Schurger and Berger built under a separate permit the same year.
- 1913
Kilian Schurger, a German immigrant, has built more than 200 Ridgewood buildings by 1913
Kilian Schurger came to New York from Germany in 1881 and, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, had built over 200 buildings in Ridgewood by 1913. For his Woodward Avenue buildings in the district he hired Louis Berger and Co., whose facades for him alternate amber and pale red brick and carry carved stone lintels and Renaissance Revival cornices.
- 2010
By 2010 862 Woodward Avenue still has its brownstone stoop, iron railing and swagged cornice
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2010 survey described an amber brick front with a projecting last bay, carved limestone lintels on every floor and a bracketed stone hood over the entrance, whose historic wood-and-glass double doors and transom survived. The historic brownstone stoop with its metal railing and the areaway railing remained below a modillioned cornice with swags. Vinyl windows had replaced the old sash, and the stoop's stonework was painted grey at its base.
“…historic brownstone stoop; historic metal stoop railing; historic areaway railing and gate w ith some details removed…”
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