868 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 868 Woodward Avenue in a seven-building row designed by Louis Berger and Company
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868 Woodward Avenue went up in 1912 as one of seven Renaissance Revival buildings, numbers 864 through 876, that developer Kilian Schurger filed under a single new-building permit, NB 2327-12. Louis Berger and Company drew the plans for the whole group, which stands on Queens tax block 3473.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
Builder Kilian Schurger, a German immigrant, has more than 200 Ridgewood buildings to his name
The Woodward Avenue lots holding this building were developed by Kilian Schurger, who had come to New York from Germany in 1881. By 1913 he had put up more than 200 buildings in Ridgewood. His houses on this block, designed by Louis Berger and Co., alternate amber and pale-red brick fronts with decorative brickwork, carved stone lintels and door surrounds, and Renaissance Revival cornices.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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