Louis Berger & Co. was an architectural firm in Queens, New York active between 1895 and 1930.
[1][2] The firm designed most of Ridgewood's row houses and tenement buildings, over 5,000 in number.
It also designed Ridgewood's "only extant freestanding mansion", at 66-75 Forest Ave., which was built in 1906, and the Ridgewood National Bank building, later Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank.
[3] Louis Berger was born in Rheinpfalz, Germany in 1875, immigrated to the U.S. in 1880, and came to Ridgewood in 1892.
He apprenticed with the prestigious architectural firm Carrere and Hastings.