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The one-block Stockholm Street Historic District is located between Woodward Avenue and Onderdonk Avenue in Ridgewood. Elected officials, including state senators John Sabini and Serphin Maltese, are scheduled to atttend. Stockholm Street Historic District homeowners have also been invited. A reception for invited guests will be held at St. Aloysius Church on Stockholm Street following the dedication.
According to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, Stockholm Street Historic District “is a one-block ensemble of brick rowhouses representing one of the most intact, harmonious, and architecturally-distinguished enclaves of working-class dwellings built in New York City during the early 20th century.”
The district consists of 36 houses, one former stable and two garages that line both sides of a yellow brick-paved street – Ridgewood's only extant brick street pavement. All but one of the houses were constructed between 1907 and 1910, when German-Americans and immigrants from Germany were developing Ridgewood. The houses feature full-width wooden porches with columns, projecting bays, uninterrupted cornice lines and bricks produced by the Kreischer Brick Manufacturing Company of Staten Island. They were designed by the architectural firm of Louis Berger & Company and built by Joseph Weiss & Co.
For more information call the Queens Historical Society at 718-939-0647.
