864 Woodward Avenue

Ridgewood | built 1912

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

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1912
Kilian Schurger builds 864 Woodward Avenue as the first of a row of seven
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Permit NB 2327-12, filed in 1912, covered seven Renaissance Revival tenements at 864 through 876 Woodward Avenue, built by Kilian Schurger and designed by Louis Berger and Company. Number 864, the lowest-numbered of the seven, has a front of pale red brick.
“864, 866, 868, 870, 872, 874, 876 Woodward Avenue…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
Architect Louis Berger, a prolific Ridgewood designer, draws the row
Louis Berger, born in 1875, appears in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's list of German-born architects who practiced in New York, alongside Detlef Lienau and Leopold Eidlitz. The commission calls him a prolific Ridgewood architect and credits him with the earliest buildings in what is now the Ridgewood North Historic District.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2010
By 2010 864 Woodward Avenue, in pale red brick, still has its wood-grained double doors
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2010 survey described a pale red brick front, five bays wide at the base, with carved limestone lintels, corbelled brickwork under a swagged, modillioned cornice, and a stone hood on brackets over the door. The historic paired wood-and-glass doors with a wood-grain finish and transom remained, along with wood basement windows with grilles or screens and the old railing at the basement entry.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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